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Friday, December 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49.6

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We bait fished IFO Big Break for three small stripers. We then headed up to north end of Sherman Lake and saw some small stripers caught and had a few bites, but no hook ups. We decide to flip jigs for bass and hooked a 4 lb striper on a 1/2 oz black and blue jig and purple pork. That was a first for me... striper on a jig.
    City: San Bruno

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 6:45A and it was COLD. Fished Hog and Sycamore sloughs with 1/2 oz Rat L Traps. Caught a bunch of stripers (4 keepers were 16, 7, 7, and 4 lbs). Also caught a 10lb salmon and 1 bass about 1.5 lbs. Off the water by 1:00P
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Stop and go retrieve with shad colored Rat L Traps.

Monday, November 29th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launch out of Ladd's with ice still on the boat. I went looking for some stripers. I caught 7 stripers between 5 and 10-lbs on pencil poppers and 2 at 5-lbs each on a diamond shad. The diamond shad also produced 5 largemouths between 1 1/2 to 2 pounds. Pretty awesome day, but very cold. I was off the water by 2 PM.
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: Look for stripers busting shad or for diving birds.

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    Water Temp: ??COLD??

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Gave the custom valco bass boat, "BASSBUSTER 1" a new lease on life. I was tired of that old 1974 20 hp Merc. from giving me problems, so I bought a new 15 hp Merc. 4 stoke. Oh YAAA! Feel like a happy bass fisherman again. Decided to run out to Big Al's and start out there first and fish my way back in. Fished 10 - 12 ft. depth with mojo shots and drop shots. Biggest bass was about 2 lbs. Cuaght a couple on cranks and some stripers too. No bites with the jig'npig so stayed with the plastics. 6 inch straight tail worms were the ticket for me. SSSLLOOWW!!!! is the key.
    City: Stockton, Ladd's

    Tips: Down size if need too and fish it slow. They are deep along the outer weed line. Thinking about running into 14 mile slough next time, maybe all the way to the back.

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: B-R-R-R! Cold and a Big North Wind. Got blown off Big Break in our "tin bote" so we hid inside the marina. Jason only lifted 2 in the 1 to 2 pounder class on a Method Crank. Fish were down in the weedbeds. Tried flippin tules, drop shot and even ventured out to try some spooks for stripers but only got SKWOT!
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: Stay home and stay warm on days like this! Maybe next time...

Friday, November 26th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent the day fishing the Central Delta. Bite was pretty good for this time of year. Only problem was most were 12" fish. Caught about 20 fish total with 4 keepers. Most came dropshoting 6" worms in various colors in 6'-15' of water. Caught a couple on small brown/purple jigs, but lately the jig fish for me have been smaller. Did rip a decent 3.5# fish on a Pointer 100 and tried cranking quite a bit, but only had one taker on the cranks and nothing on blades.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Show down and work the outside weed lines. As the water temp drops focus on areas with reduced current.

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Cold and windy w/low tide bottoming out at 8 am. Finally found fish in Beaver Slough. 5 keepers and four dinks. 2 on blue & silver Shad Rap, 2 on blue & silver Speed Trap, and 4 on split shot 4" green weenie style worm. Average keeper only 1.5 lbs..
    City: Delhi

    Tips: When cold & windy stay home & watch football.

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough for us on Sat. Got a decent striper on a Blade and got a few other small largemouth on traps, blades, and senkos. Couldn't figure out much of a pattern just jumped around and got one here and one there. First fish was the striper so thought we were gonna do good even with the conditions. Windy as heck but still fun.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Boy what a cold and windy weekend! After finishing a number of errands around the house and talking with a couple of striper fisherman trolling in Disco Bay behind my house I decided to spend about an hour trolling for stripers on Sat. With the high winds and high pressure system most people I spoke to were having a difficult time catching fish (especially the live bait fishermen). With this in mind I decided to troll a 3/4oz rat-l-trap in chrome/blue/bleeding shad on 12lb Yo-Zuri behind the boat. After about the first circle around the lagoon behind my house I was able to hook up with a nice 2lb striper off a point. I then proceeded to hit a couple of other sloughs with no so much as a bite for about an hour. Then on my way back home I went past the same spot I caught the first one and hooked up with a striper in the 8-10 lb range that I lost at the boat along with my rat-l-trap. Next time I

    Tips: Dress warm

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent part of the morning in the fog waiting for it to lift, while fishing in Disappointment near Paradise Point. Finding the tide on a incoming move we started fishing on the outside of the weed line at tule points. We found 3ft dropping off to 20ft on these points in current. It seems that the bass were sitting on top waiting for the bait fish. We found some bails of bait, but no strippers around. Moving into White slough later cranking, worms, spinners and senkos finding more small bass. We were fishing a small tourament with Basin Bass Masters of 12 boats, big fish was a 4.56, big bag 10.8?. Not a big day but fun in the delta with friends. The winds started up about 1pm.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: fish slow, use big line and hooks, dark colors in dark waters, senkos, worms and lizards work also.

Friday, November 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: mid - 50s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Disappointment today and the sloughs in the Northeast area. We caught 4 bass tossing Rat L Traps, but the best was catching a 21 lb salmon on a 1/2 oz trap using 14lb P line. What a fight before it was netted.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: upgrade hooks and split rings so it can handle the fight by a salmon.

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 55 Deg. F

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent 2 days (Nov. 13~14) chasing striper and largemouth focusing on the eastern delta area. Largemouth were eager to brown jigs at either end of the tide, with several fish grabbing spoons at the shallow side of islands.

    Striper fishing seems to be decent for all those willing to bear with morning fog. I found fish receptive to broken back rebels and spoons, largest fish in the boat was 15 pounds.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Large-mouth were found feeding at any defined point and at the shallow end of several islands.

    Striper are running and bait guys really seem to be hammering them. I jumped around spooning and trolling and found decent success doing both.

Friday, November 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out of wimpys and went down around sycamore slough and found one of my best days for me in a while. My best five went 14 1/2 lbs. And my big fish was 5 lbs. I was cranking a chartruese speed trap all day and got about 15 keepers. Went out agian on 11/14 tried the same crank bait and could only get 1 fish. I dont know what happen but thats fishing on one day and off the next.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: just try crank baits outside the weed lines

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 54-58 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A rainy day but no winds made the day of fishing the delta a great one. Out at Paridise Point at 6am with the guys from Basin Bassmasters started down disappoinment slough using crank baits and spinner baits in white w/gold and silver blades. Staying outside the weeds and cranking,cranking and cranking until my arm feel off. But by the end of the day I found stripers and largies in 5-12 ft all day, from 1.0 to 3.5 lbs. Wait for the tides and stay in open water.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: crank outside the weed line. match the crank bait to the shad in size and color.

Monday, November 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had one of the best days in a long time!

    Got late start 1000hrs and worked Mid Delta. Found a bunch of fish flipping with a new technique Randy Pringle taught me, just out of current on points. Then found some schools of Largemouth and had a ball. It was like catching schooled strippers. One 2-4lbr every other cast. These came on slow moving Rattle traps. By 1500hrs I had fifty to sixty 3lbrs. Yes you read that right. My thumbs where sore. Never caught so many Large Mouths the same size before.

    I have to say thank you to Randy Pringle for the new techniques. I learned this a few weeks ago on a trip to Clear Lake. I watched several guys go down a bunch of docks and catch nothing. He pulled into them and said "Just watch and do what I do" After a few minutes we had limits of 4-5lbrs, out of the water the boat before us had given up on. He also gave me the starting point for todays trip. All in all the most I have learned from any guide has been from Randy Pringle.

    Best way to learn it is to go out with Randy. I would screw it up attempting to write it down.
    City: Oakland

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ran around with my buddy to a few of our stiper holes and could find any keepers. Just catfish and undersized stipers today which were all released. We ran as far as brandon island and just could not find any big bites.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: FIND THE SCHOOL!!

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 55.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched early in heavy fog from Orwood. Slow tedious run to woodward.
    Threw reaction baits at first and spooks, torpedos etc. with Nothing! Some action then off crankbaits, mostly craw patterns and one silver/green rattle trap but only boated one keeper.
    Swithched to plastics, brush hog and flukes with limited action. Best fish of the day was a 3lb 1oz on a Fluke.
    Last effort was jigs (every one in the box, all shapes & patterns) for a couple hours with two fish, both dinks.
    All fish were caught outside the weedlines, relatively deep. Bites were extremely subtle.
    City: Solano county

    Tips: SLOW, I mean SSSSLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWW it down. Suspend alot.

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey guy's and girl's. Sorry to use report page to ask for help, i was just woundering if anyone could help me figure out how to catch those droping water temp bass, i have had trouble on most of my prommissing spot's. some good tip's would be great.
    thank you and tight lines
    City: Turlock

Friday, November 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 53-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tom Rhodes and I left Paridise Point at 6am, low tide and started down Disappointment on the outside of the weed lines. Tom got a 17" striper on a white/white spinner(his first striper) and my first bass was on a crank bait. In comming tide by 7am was slow, moving about 4 ft. Moving down just passed Hocker Cut finding balls of bait fish we cranked up four more (small largies). I worked inside the weed lines and not finding much or than 6-10 smallies. Tom got his first plastic worm bass, senko. The day was sunny and in the high 60's and very light winds. We ended up with 10 bass with two keepers.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Work out side the weed lines, cranking and spinner baits.

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a mixed bag today. Launched out of Paradise Point and fished Disappointment. 3 of us caught 7 bass (largest - 2lbs) and 3 stripers (3, 4, and 5 lbs). Went up to the Beaver, Hog, and Sycamore sloughs area and caught 3 salmon (8, 10, and 12 lbs).

    Most of the fish caught on 1/2 oz shad colored Rat L Trap.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Rat L Traps. Upgraded Owner 4x size 4 hooks and heavier split rings so that they can handle the salmon and striper without hook or split ring getting straightened. Use the stop and go method when retrieving Rat L Traps.