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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53to54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: was out monday, tough day only caught 11 fish to 3 3/4lbs. best five went 14lbs.4ozs. offshore weed edge only produced one ,the rest on flipping.(senkos&sweetbeavers) got off the water just as the lightning started.
    City: oakland

    Tips: my apology to those who've had to read negetive stuff. i wish i could enter all the tournaments,but i do have a real job. if there are comments or questions feel free to email me(an leave your email or phone#) these pages should be used for reports!!

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: flipped the break most the day and got nadda made a move into Dutch on the third cast with a blade 7lbs 8oz Toad two minutes later one dink.called it a day.
    City: oakley

    Tips: All I can say is stay positive and focus. good luck!!

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A beautiful day to fish. Fished Frank's Tract and the area where the San Joaquin/South Mokelumne rivers meet. Ended the day with 10 bass (largest 3 lbs), 2 stripers (largest 5 lbs), and a 7 lb salmon. The salmon clobbered a Rat L Trap right next to the boat - really surprised my fishing partner. Off the water by 1:00P.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Caught half the fish on shad colored Rat L Trap and half on white/chartruese spinnerbait (includes the stripers). Caught at least 6 shaker stripers on spinnerbaits.

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53to54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: lot of wind today, coming out of the south. still not a bad day. 13 fish total,biggest was4lbs.8ozs. best 5 went 18+.lot of boats out today, anglers choice& hook tournaments today.
    City: oakland

    Tips: brushogs,sweet beavers,lipless cranks

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my son Niko to my Club Tourn. on Sat. Weather did not treat use very well. We caught fish, Niko tied on one of my homemade Jigs for the first time. He caught 2 on Black/Blue. I hit 4 on the S20. Sun. We fished The Hook. Went to the same area. Niko tied on the same jig and bamm 3# first fish, Bamm 4# second fish. We were on fish. We had 4 by 11:00 and then Pop at 11:30 the trolling motor cable broke. Made it hard to fish, but we hung in there. Ended the day with 5 fish just under 11 pounds. Just our luck... Hope we made the TOC...
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Look for cleaner water. Try Jigs and 6-7" plastics. The bass are moving up and should just get better as the water warms.

Monday, February 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51to53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: another great day on the delta. got a late start but no rain till noon. missed my first bite,and then my second, i pitched right back, only this time i stuck her.it felt like a good one i figured 5 or better.well it was,11lbs. 4ozs. that was our first fish of the day.not a bad start. we just kept catching them. in all 26 fish,six four pounders one five the rest solid two's n three's. all the 4's, the 5 and the big one were weighed on my cull'm rite scale.
    City: oakland

    Tips: my last posting said the big ones were moving up.i guess so. to see fish look at the photo i posted. the fish are hungry, we used rip baits,senkos, brushogs and lipless cranks

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the morning before it started to rain. Caught 1 keeper striper and 2 bass. We caught keeper striper (and 10 shakers). Decided to play with white/chartruese 1/2 oz Assassinator spinnerbait on the rocky banks and caught the 2 bass (2 and 3 lbs) about 50 ft apart.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Appears the bass have started to move to the shallows. Both bass were in less than 3 ft of water and hit the spinnerbaits within 5 ft of the bank.

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: After reading the NCBF post on Black bass had to go try for myself. We landed 17 BB to 6 lbs. best 5 going 19 lbs. Bite was on sweet beavers and trixy shad fished like a worm. Note saw a boat fight a sturgeon for 20mins in Big Break pretty cool, but it bent out the hook. Thank you John Lee for your post. You helped make it a great day.
    Fire Jon
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: fish slow and hard big fish were in the thick part of the weeds.

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On Tuesday, we caught 2 limits of stripers in less than 30 minutes (largest - 9 lbs). Today, 3 of us went out and we caught 4 stripers and 2 bass (4 lbs and 2 lbs). All fish caught on Rat L Traps. For both trips combined, we caught over 30 shaker stripers.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Fished around islands today and caught fish in 6-8 ft of water. Shad colored Rat L Traps.

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50.2

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood. Fished Disco Bay - Nothing but two Sea Lions feeding on catfish. They kept bringing them up and eating the tail half, leaving the 1/2 with head swimming on the surface. Saw them eat 7-8 before leaving area.

    Fished Indian and caught one 2'11oz and that was it. Fish took a senko. Threw senkos, rat-L-trap, jigs, drop-shot, sweet beaver...inside and outside. Nada but that one.

    Other boats reported zero with the exception of one other boat who also caught only 1. Weather was warm and sunny, no wind but less than 1' visibility.

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    Water Temp: ?? not sure gau

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ran the custom valco bass boat all the way to lincoln village west marina. With my new 15 hp Merc. 4 stroke it took roughly around 35 minutes to get there. I found some clearer water to fish in the very back of the marina. I tried every thing,but no bites. I was graghing fish and saw some surface activity from the shad. I decided to run back to Ladd's becuase it was getting dark. I finally cuaght 2 bass shaking a reeper and split shotting.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Find the clearer water. Good Luck.

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Ladd's. Only caught three LM and one striper. Rookie on the Delta!!! Got one LM on a tube off the deep weed edge in the Mildred area. Got one on a Senko in Franks. Went to White's, nothing, a bit colder water there. Got the striper on a Speed Trap off the main channel. Went to Fourteen Mile Slough and got one more LM on a Senko. Rough day for us. Six bites all day, executed on four of them. Lots of huge weed mats all over the surface.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Lots of casts, you gotta hit 'em on the head. Use dark colors that show up in the muddy water.

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    Water Temp: 49 - 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Wasn't muddy, maybe heavy stained? Anyway, launched out of Orwood and went to Disco. Threw a Staycee and found some grass on some rocks. Worked a jig for 45 mins, nothing. Threw a 4" Senko and got a solid 2 lb'r on the second cast. Fish hit it 10 feet from the bank in the grass. Pressure bite. Beleive it or not, I haven't thrown a Senko in over 3 years!! Went back to the Staycee and nothing. I saw a lot of activity in the cuts and were probably Stripers. Saw birds dive-bombing but I didn't bring any spoons to work the area.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Water is warming up and the fish are beginning the prowl. Get out before the next cold front comes in!! Senko was June Bug color. Staycee was Chart/Blue.

Friday, February 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: not much going on today, let's drop the boat in at Russo's (great place) and throw some blades. 3rd cast right outside the 5 zone........boink! 10 lb striper. OK, this is good, but where's mama black bass? a few hundred flips later with the jig, yep, a solid 4lber. that's it my friends. That's the beauty of it, no such thing as a bad day fishin'......gotta love this stuff, huh?
    City: walnut creek

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched outta Ladds this morning about 8:30, ran over to 14 mile started flipping a senco with no bites. I ran to mildered fished some tulie berms and my first fish went 5lbs, so i slowed down and worked the area throughly for no more bites. I fired up and ran over bye Franks...and agin no bites so i ran back to mildred fished a tulie berm down river from where i cought my first fish and started flipping a double wide beaver after about 20 minutes i get a 2lbr put the fieh in the live well turn right around flip in the exact same spot and got another...this one barely keppt, after about another 20 minutes go back to where i caught the bigger fish, i start flipping the beaver and lost a decent one and that was it for the day
    City: modesto

    Tips: used 7 inch senco and double wide sweet beaver in watermelon/red both baits didnt try another bait all day...was looking for the fat one.

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Well, I knew going in that I wasn't going to get much action. I was right. I fished from sunrise till around 1 p.m. I managed two fish one on a drop shot and one on a rip bait. The drop shot fish came in 2ft of water and it was a huge fish maybe pushing a lb. Water was stained and the fog was really thick until around noon. Fished Taylor the whole time. I can't wait for the prespawn.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: Use the force. Always.

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went after stripers today. Only 4 hits for the entire day, but we landed 4 keepers (largest - 6 lbs). Fished the South Mokelumne and Sycamore Slough.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Use 3/4 oz shad Rat L Trap. Keep tossing them traps. Hate those foggy mornings on the delta -- takes forever to get somewhere. Be careful -- take your time so you get there safely.

Monday, January 31st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 46 to49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: started in big break (had to,to much fog) started at9:30 flat calm tide was going out. fished a weed shoal that produced six solid fish bigest was 4.65 lbs. others solid 2to3 lbs. went to franks tract fished around sugar barge 6lb striper on a brushog one other bite missed. fished other side near holland cut. broke off one and missed one. went back to the break ,fished the same area caught one more an called it a day. not a bad day. best 5 between 13to15lbs.
    City: oakland

    Tips: outside weed edge 3to5ft carolina rig brushog and texas rig tubs .

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ??no gauge??

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Same as the previous two reports.....not even a bite! Launched outta Tiki. Fished around Whiskey. Senkos, spinnerbait, jig, and dropshot. Not even a touch. One guy on a boat said that there had been a big sea lion cruisin' the cut we were fishing for 3 days prior. That didn't help the bite any. Only on the water for 4 hours. had a dead battery, lost a rod and reel in the drink, no fish, least the weather was real nice. I agree, January is real tough on the Delta.
    City: Ceres

    Tips: FISH A LAKE!!!!

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched at 8 a.m. fished Old River. Graphed some stripers from the big bridge to Widows. The broken back was nonproductive in the 2 colors I used. A couple of guys I talked to were not catching fish either so I went for largemouth. 47 degree water. January. These fish eat 1 time every 3 weeks and they all must have eaten.I was able to check new water and practice casting. I saw a couple more bass boats zipping up and down the river, why I don't know. January never is a good month in the Delta for me. 0 fish for 100 hours over the years. I still had to report. It is so weird catching 0.0 in places that kick butt when it's warmer.The duck hunters are out in force. It was a nice sunny day .
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Dynamite.