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Sunday, March 13th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: i launched out of B&W resort and cranked in front of the marina on the east bank. i got only three fish but the totalled to be 7 pounds total. i then went up north to look for new spawning grounds and started pitching and cranking around. i got a couple threes but the highlight of the day was when i landed an 8.2 on a crankbait. all in all i had a good day on the water.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: up north the fish still really arent on beds yet. try cranking or drop shotting into deeper water.

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Buckley Cove mid morning and fished to the east. Morning started out quick with a couple small keepers on senkos and crank baits. Pulled in a 5 1/4 on a senko hiding under a tree a 3 lb'er on a lizard a little later. Hits were very light.
    City: Stockton

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 630 and head to my favorite water this time of year. The should be moving up. First cast on a jig I hit a 2# real tight to the bank. Kept moving, kept casting, a hit every 7th cast. These fish are moving up and are hungry. Had a fair limit by 830. By 1030 I hit a 6# and a 4#. By 1200 I had another 4# on a 5" green-weenie and another 6# on a Senko. Caught over 20+ fish on jigs and plastics. Best 5 went around 23-24 lbs. One of my best days on the Delta.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Look for clear water and the fish should be sunning themself. Jigs and plastics. The blade bit should turn on real soon...

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49 -52 degree

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished with two friends out of Sugar barge on sunday, one of them is first time bass fishing, he was so happy I took him out fishing, even on rainy and windy day, he had only three solid bites, no hook ups. the other friend he thinks what all the bass doing , he got zero bite. I was pretty lucky yesterday, got nine fishes on plastic, no taker on rip baits, cranks, spinners, overall pretty tough day, I will be out again this sunday for our shop turkey shoot out of Lundberg. see you out there.
    City: EL CERRITO, CA

    Tips: water is very cold now, fish plastics very slow. have good time!

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    Water Temp: 61/62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lazy M launches both Sat and Sun just before sunrise and had some major + tides. Only fished till 9 or so but had another real strong few hours both days. On Sat I caught a 2 2+ pounders 2 1 1/2. At some point I started screwin around with the shallow dinks but moved back to the jig around wood. Better on Sunday (not weather wise) another big + tide but 2 3's and a 4 by 9! Can't fish a full day but it is smokin hot in the morning. All these fish from the M to Widows. I know there were tournaments both days near by. Saw a LOT of unproductive dudes in a hurry with all there spinnerbaits and even a buzzbait. I watched em come and watched em go...empty. I just fished my water inch by inch, minute by minute, made some real nice casts and I think I did pretty good. Even caught a 22 inch striper on sat during the last 5 feet of the retreive...he pissed milk all in my boat! I know for a fact that these next weeks will be some of the best down here all year. I've caught em and lost em. Real big ones. Temps comming up and so is the moon.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Spend the time getting familiar with the water and what's under it. Sounds stupid but it's true. It's taken me like 3 years to get these bigger fish. Using the jig effectivly in still,or fast and feeling up the water or rather what's down there.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The BASS gods smiled on Big Daddy today. After being out of commision for a few months w a wrist injury from motocross. I'd been trying some one-handed bass fishing therapy with fair success, but no quality until today. Fished senko's in a marina for a few hours down south w my girlfriend. Second fish didn't budge on the hookset, I knew she was solid. But before I could hand off the rod (I still can't really reel a fish in yet) she starts rippin drag. She's got me around a dock, through some foam blocks and is now boiling on the other side of the boat trying to get to deep water. No worries right, not to mention 4 other boats around watching this fiasco. Slowly but surely I gave a little and reeled up the slack, my only choice. Finally out goes the net and in comes my new PB 11lbs 9oz. WOW! Caught a dozen or so more in the 2-3lb range and finished up by sticking a 5lb11oz fatty. Best five just under 25lbs. Side note..Watched another basser stick a 9lb 12oz toad right next to us....The big girls are on the move
    City: TRACY

    Tips: Our presentation varied between slow and deadsticking,,less than 5 feet of water

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 59 early 63 lat

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out with rip baits [husky jerk and rattling rouges] in Whiskey Slough near the harbor at first light. Fished just off the weedline and picked up a 2 and a 3 the first hour. Tried a june bug mag 11 zoom worm texas rigged off the rip rap for nothing the next half hour. Decided to try the tules with senkos. used a 5 inch green and white and dyed the white part chartruse and painted black bars down the sides with a sharpie and red dots in between the black bars. This pattern always seems to work right about now every year. i call it my fire tiger senko. First 5 casts got a 3, a two, two around 1.5 and one the same size as the senko. No fish hit on the fall. All hit after at least 15 seconds of dead stickin. After that length of tule line shut down I moved up the slough a bit to fish a tule island. The tide was moving in fast by now and a wave of dirty water and debris came with it. Everything kind of stopped. I got 2 more dinks and headed in. On the way in I saw near the bank what looked like a stringer of fish someone lost. I looked closer and it was a bass around 5 lbs with a bass around 3 head first down his throat. Looked to me like he tried to eat that 3 lber and they both died. Weird stuff.
    City: Union City

    Tips: I thought the rip bait bite would be better but the bass seemed to only be relating to tules and holding tight to them.

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    Water Temp: 62 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched again out of Whiskey Slough. Took the wife fishing for her first time this year. She busted all her fish on PBJ Senkos biggest went 3lbs lots of small males. I fished a different pattern drop shotted Aarons Magic Roboworms in Mildred outside weedline edges. Caught several fish biggest was 3.5lbs. Total weight for both of us was for five fish was 15lbs. All in all it was a tough day fishing. Looking for the big bite to come on.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Drop shot bite was consistent. Remember changing the pattern will put fish in the boat you will be suprised. Success to all.

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57to59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started the day fogged in .launched at big break stayed in the break till fog lifted. had 4 blow ups on buzzbait. followed up 2 with senkos. caught 12 in the break. went to franks tract. ended up with 12 more. biggest went 4lbs2ozs,best 5 went 15lbs6ozs. beautiful day but no big fish
    City: oakland

    Tips: senkos brushogs ripbaits an buzzbaits, no frog fish yet

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty good day, very foggy early. Fished old river, down from Rivers end. Had 4 in the boat first 1/2 hour there, all on beavers. very light bites, I think I only felt 2 of em, wound up being a line watching day. all in all got 8 keepers by 10 am, biggets about 2 1/2, mostly those cookie cutter fish. probably missed another 7-8 fish, it's comin on!
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Used oxblood sweetbeavers, 3/16 oz weight. never even picked up another rod. good luck!

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of paradise point, fished dissapointment and didnt do as well as i did the other day, not even close. I got five fish, four small and one 2 lbs. That was it and my buddy got skunked. Thats the delta for you on one day and off the next.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: speinnerbaits, crankbaits, and 2 pounder on a jig-n-pig

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 6:30 launch and caught 5 keepers and a smaller fish by 10:00 off points near current. Partner caught 4 keepers. No big fish today. Saw a couple more guys catch fish. All this at Old River/Italian. Good day.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Buddy used a white tube texas rigged for his. Jig for me.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thurs (03/03) and Fri (03/04).

    On Thursday, 2 of us caught 7 bass (largest - 5 lbs)and 1 striper. Off the water by 1:00P.

    On Friday, 3 of us caught 6 bass (largest - 3 lbs) and 1 striper. Off the water by 12:00P because of the heavy rain.

    Caught majority of fish from the rocky banks on both days with Rat L Traps in the Franks Tract area. 5 lber caught on char/wh spinnerbait in 3 ft of water from a weed bed.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Appears fish are starting to stay close to the rocky banks.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great day today, launched out of paradise point and stayed in the area all day. Had about 20 fish up to 4 lbs. Best five went 14 lbs. Best day all year, it was about time i caught a fish over 3 lbs for the year. That water is waming up fast.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: spinnerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits and senkos

Monday, February 28th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56to60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out monday an had another great day. launched out of big break at 9am. worked some of the break with little success,two small fish one missed bite. with the tide bottoming out we headed to franks tract. fished points on openings and started catching fish,moved inside and started flipping. ended the day with 30 fish exactly. biggest was caught on a buzzbait 5lbs.13ozs.also 3.12,3.11,3.10,3.05 best five went 20lbs2ozs.
    City: oakland

    Tips: the temp.continue to climb,last week we had 55to56,this week it went all the way up to 60 we talked to someone who caught buzzbait fish the day before so we tried. we caught the big one an had one other blow up.we caught fish on cranks,rip baits brushogs and senko.

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: Mid 50s

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Put in at Buckleys Cove and fished 14 mile and Pixlie Sloughs found fish on point off of wood and one of the rip rap all bites came on chartruse Blades.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: bite is starting to pick up

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50 something

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I caught 5 nice largemouth bass today. I think the real tough winter is over because I found several hungry fish. No luck from 6:30 to 8 fishin grass and rocks with the lizzard and jig but I changed patterns at 8 and started fishin the points, breaks and dropoffs where there was current and is was ON! 5 fish in 1 hour biggest was 2.5 and the smallest was a pound but the fishin was good for me on Old River/Italian. Gone by 10:30 and satisfaction was high.Can't wait till next weekend because it is time to catch fish in the delta right now. I had gone 0 for 3 in Jan/Feb here but 1 for 4 is good and no skunks expexted now through late Dec. Good luck to you all!
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: I got em on 2 jigs. 3/8 blk/blu and 1/4 blk/blu.

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: decent bite down south,8 fish in the boat, best 5 went 13lbs., senkos and dropshot, fish were related to tules, bait had to have purple in it.
    City: brentwood

    Tips: tules near deep water and current

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lanunched out of Orwood Saturday morning. Water looked pretty good. 1-2ft visibility. lots of debris in water. Water temps were in the low 50's. Started throwing spinner batis, for no bites. As the skies opened up hit some cuts and points out from Disco. Got a good hit on a senko, that was it for a while. My buddy got a nice striper, on a rattle trap. We moved quite a bit as other boats. Everyone was moving trying to find fish. Moved up to Mildred Island for a couple of bites-Nada. Water temp up there was 57' warmest we could find, and a bit clearer-still lots of debris.The was very little water movement today, very weak tide.We fished after a full moon. The fish could have been foraging all night-who knows-just a thought.Ended the day with one nice striper, all in a great day. Spring can't get here any faster-! Tight Lines,
    Sean
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish slow, spring is around the corner, bites we did get were pretty close to shore 3-4ft water.

Friday, February 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Whiskey. Fished senkos, flukes and lipless cranks with 1 fish to 2lbs. Tide was out and water was dead calm with no movement whatsoever. Everyone I talked to was having a tough day.
    Went up around Mildred area and found some clear water with current switched over to a white spinner bait with white blades. Solid hookups lots of 4lbers and 3 lbers best five went 18lbs
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Stay focused and find a pattern that works. If yesterdays pattern fails switch up you will be suprised. Tight Lines and follow that tide if you want fish.