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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Wimpy's and fished the back half of the sloughs that run out to the east. Fished the A-rig all afternoon and landed nothing but stripes all day. All caught in 8-12 ft of water and fished it as close to bottom as possible. 5 fish that went 6.5 -7.8 lbs and another 5 in the 3-5lb range. Rigged up shad pattern paddle tails for the most part. I used 6 different plastics throughout the day and they were eating just about anything I stuck on the rig.

    Tips: Anything that mimics the bait fish that are back in the sloughs is gonna get bit. Bigger fish are definitely out off the bank in deeper water. Look for the birds and rip rap with spaced out tule patches.

Friday, November 6th, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report…. Strong bite continues for Delta anglers
    Dan’s Delta Outdoors Fall Striper Series #3 Goes out of Big Break Marina Saturday November 7th. catch and release tournament is the Final of 3 events. Registration 5 to 6 am target draw and blast off right at first light. ALL BOATS must leave from Big Break Marina. This is the Finally of the 2015 Series “The Open” 24 inches or better no slot, Go get ‘em Boys and girls!
    Bait fishing tactics from both boat and Bank Seminar November 19th. Come receive instruction From The Dan’s Delta Staff on the best striper bait fishing tactics and techniques.
    Isleton The salmon bite remains strong as cooler evening temps take hold. The bite in the area just improved all week. Salmon anglers are seeing success. a few fishing finally started getting solid reports of success from Salmon searching anglers with Silvertrons leading the way. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try.
    Walnut Grove Continuing solid Salmon numbers with many decnt Scores reported Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish.. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemouth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.
    Discovery Bay Where did they go? Stripers that had been starting to group up in the Marina side seem to have disappeared. Have faith! They are still in the area, the bait and stripes are in main river Holland riverside south to Italian Slough. Dan’s Classic Shimmer Jigs and Strike King RedEye Shad getting bit. Black Bass cooler evening temps have water temperatures dropping and the bite on upswing!. Strike King small Double Buzz and Poppers getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out !
    Frank’s Tract Stripers and bass bite both responded well to the cooler temperatures. It’s no secret what a little fall weather can do. Walking baits are great topwater options while small swim baits and swim jigs get the mention. We found plenty of Stripers and Black Bass with Hair Jigs, Weedless Swimmers like the BIG 6thSense Hollow Bodies getting grabbed. Lot of Stripers on Old River Flats.
    West Delta Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad . Antioch Pier scored stripers to27 inches this week. Shad is top offering. The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. Go On Top with Dan’s Delta Mizers, during the day go old school with Hair Jigs Like Dan’s Classic Shimmer jigs or Spro in open water White/Dark Green and White/Blue best this week . Sturgeon quietly is slipping into the spotlight. Eel is the best bait over all, but roe and shad also scoring diamondbacks Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking Lucke Strike Square bills in bait fish patterns and spinnerbaits is key.
    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 1200 fished primarily sycamore slough. Pretty steady breeze today and sunny, found a decent spinner bait bite on wind blown side of the tule islands. Mostly 1.5- 2 lb fish there. Moved back in the slough and got on a insane crank bite in shad pattern deep diving. Caught 20+ fish during that last 2 hours of the outgoing tide. All came on windblown rip rap banks in 6-12 ft of water. Fish in the 2-3 lb range and then landed one that went 6.8 right at dusk. Quite a few blow ups in the area but the crank bite was to good to switch to topwater.

    Tips: All fish caught were caught while bumping the deep diving crank off the bottom. Pausing and then fast cranking on snags draws most of the hits. Fished parallel to the shore to keep it on bottom the while time in the 10ft range

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    Report: From Cooch's Fishing October closed out last week with the Delta bass moving up and starting ta chew. Water temps have settled into the mid 60s and stablized driving active fish into the shallows and grass bed in numbers. The baracade in False River has been removed and current flows through Franks Tract and the middle part of the River are back to normal. Days of fighting through 50 dinks ta git a decent limit have been replaced with days of catchin 20+ keepers in the 2-6 pound range. The bigger fish for us have become more active later in the day after noon time. Active fish are now chasing down liplwess cranks and ripbaits fished over the top of the grass on the higher tides. As the tide begins to fall, the bigger fish are starting to position on the grass line breaks in 5-9 foot and are snapping both Jigs and a Yamamoto Kreature. Green pumpkins and Watermelon reds are working best and ya need to rotate between em constantly as their preference changes spot to spot, hour by hour. If yer not getting bit, or catching short fish, keep moving and cover water to find those bigger active fish that are schooling up.

Saturday, October 31st, 2015

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out for a fun Halloween fishing run. Caught alot of rats on top water. Had some decent blowups with no hookups on froggy though. Water is getting cooler, saw a salmon swimming in old river. Lots of stripers to play with everywhere. The hyacinth is thick in some areas, careful of logs in the stuff.
    Most of all....Have fun !

    Tips: STOP THE TUNNELS

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report….
    Fall Bite continues to gain momentum
    Dan’s Delta Outdoors Fall Striper Series #3 Goes out of Big Break Marina Saturday November 7th. This catch and release tournament is the 2nd of 3 events. Registration 5 to 6 am target draw and blast off right at first light. ALL BOATS must leave from Big Break Marina. This is the Finally of the 2015 Series “The Open” 24 inches or better no slot, Go get ‘em Boys and girls!

    Isleton
    Finally the salmon bite remains strong as cooler evening temps take hold. The bite in the area just improved all week. Salmon anglers are seeing success, a few fishing finally started getting solid reports of success from Salmon searching anglers with silvertrons leading the way. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try. Smallies are getting more attention now as 2 to 4 pound fish show more often now… Jigs and flukes are getting them!

    Walnut Grove
    Continuing solid Salmon numbers with many Great Scores reported Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish.. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemouth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.

    Discovery Bay
    More Stripers now starting to group up in the Marina side. Dan’s Classic Shimmer Jigs and Strike King RedEye Shad getting mentioned. Black Bass cooler evening temps have water temperatures dropping and the bite on upswing!. Crankbaits baitfish patterned Rick Clunn Square Bills and Livingston Baits getting the attention of the bass anglers. Strike King small Double Buzz and Poppers getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out !

    Frank’s Tract
    Stripers and bass bite both responded well to the removal of the False River dam. It’s no secret what a little current can do. Walking baits are great topwater options while small swim baits and swim jigs get the mention. We found plenty of Stripers and Black Bass with Hair Jigs, Weedless Swimmers like the BIG 6thSense Hollow Bodies getting grabbed. Lot of Stripes on Old River Flats.

    West Delta
    Salmon success stories still abound. Slime Rockets best on the incoming tide with Mepp’s Flying C’s in Pittsburgh and Humphries areas. More Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad. Antioch Pier scored stripers to47 inches this week. Shad is top offering. The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. Go On Top with Dan’s Delta Mizers, during the day go old school with Hair Jigs Like Dan’s Classic Shimmer jigs or Spro in open water White/Dark Green and White/Blue best this week . Bass Bite stays solid in the Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking Lucke Strike Square bills in bait fish patterns and spinnerbaits is key.

    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Monday, October 19th, 2015

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    Report: Coochs Fishing
    After three weeks of battling undersized dinks every day on the Delta, the cool weather of fall finally drops the River temps below 70 degrees. By Sunday, 67 degrees greeted us in the morning and the afternoon highs peaked at 69.5. Add to this the removal of the barricade in False River, we now have normal current flows in all areas from Franks down to Disco Bay and areas off Old River. This has brought up a larger group of fish who are now going on the fall feed. In weeks past, you could punch all day and catch some very nice fish, yet the affects of the past three weeks of spraying the surface canopies, has had a drastic, negative affect on that bite in many of the good areas where punch fish were being caught. The topwater bite had been very good as well, especially with that Whopper Plopper and Spook, you could stick it out in the right areas and also acquire 5-7 really good bites tossing it all day. Yet the cool mornings and temp drops paired with the spraying, has hindered that bite as well. The one constant through all this for us has been the deeper jig bite, where we have been catching quite a few fish in the 5-9 pound range in 10-18 feet. With the recent cool down of the water temps, and the return of normal current flows to the middle Delta, the fish have become more active and are willing to hit other baits like the dropshot, T-rigger Kreature, Paddle tails and lipless cranks, along with that jig. The timing for this bite couldn't have come at a better time for me as my clients of the past 4 days have been inexperienced bass anglers, who just wanted to catch fish and have a great time on the water. Yet the more experienced anglers looking to improve their Delta fishing, get to see great results when targeting bigger fish with the jig. That great fall bite is finally here!

Sunday, October 18th, 2015

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    Report: ***WARNING****FALSE RIVER DAM NOT OPEN****

    Contrary to the WB report I fished the Delta yesterday, I attempted to cross the False River Dam area and was immediately red-flagged and told to go back. Although they removed the floating rope with buoys IT IS NOT SAFE TO CROSS!!!

    That said my fishing buddy and I went the long-way around from Big Break to fish around Little Frank's. The Striped bass bite was not on in the morning, no birds, nothing taking any rattle-traps. A fellow fisherman did catch legal limits using blue-gill. We traced our way back to Big Break via Taylor Slough, caught a few, then back into big break to catch about 10 LMB, biggest about 2pounds. Fished wacky style.

Saturday, October 17th, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report…. Fall Bite Explosion

    Dan’s Delta Outdoors Fall Striper Series #2 Goes out of Big Break Marina Saturday Morning. This catch and release tournament is the 2nd of 3 events. Registration 5 to 6 am target draw and blast off right at first light. ALL BOATS must leave from Big Break Marina.

    Hook Line and Sinker Black Bass series continues out of Russo’s this weeklend Good Luck to all those Anglers that are going out for the fall bite, Grab some Booby Trap jigs and get after it!

    Isleton
    BAM! Finally the salmon bite EXPLODED as cooler evening temps take hold. The bite in the area just improved all week. Salmon anglers are seeing success, a few fishing finally started getting solid reports of success from Salmon searching anglers with silvertrons leading the way. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try. Smallies are getting more attention now as 2 to 4 pound fish show more often now… Jigs and flukes are getting them!

    Walnut Grove
    Continuing solid Salmon numbers with many Great Scores reported Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish.. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemouth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.

    Discovery Bay
    More Stripers now starting to group up in the Marina side. R2Sea Rukus and Whopper Ploppers getting smacked. Black Bass cooler evening temps have water temperatures dropping and the bite on upswing!. Stay near main river current with Crankbaits Strike King XD 6 and 2.5 square bills. Strike King small Double Buzz and Poppers getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out !

    Frank’s Tract Stripers
    and bass bite both responded well to the removal of the False River dam. It’s no secret what a little current can do. Walking baits are great topwater options while small swim baits and swim jigs get the mention.

    West Delta
    WOW! Salmon success stories still abound. Slime Rockets best on the incoming tide with Mepp’s Flying C’s in Pittsburgh and Humphries areas. More Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad. Antioch Pier scored stripers to 38 inches this week. Shad is top offering. The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. Go On Top with Dan’s Delta Mizers, during the day go old school with Hair Jigs Like Dan’s Classic Shimmer jigs or Spro in open water White/Dark Green and White/Blue best this week . Bass Bite stays solid in the Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking Lucke Strike Square bills in bait fish patterns and spinnerbaits is key.

    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Saturday, October 10th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched Paradise and went straight to Middle River dodging all the hyacyinth along the way.. oh well! threw suspended spot lipless and picked up a bunch of 10"-12" over the weed beds in 5' -9' and and then picked up a couple of 2lbers, then a couple 3lbers....then back to 12"ers. We saw that many more follow the baits all the way to the boat...funny to watch them either streak by or grab the bait for a second and go crazy to shake free. Worked our way all around Little Connection to Disappointment for a few more 1 and 2lbers and quit at 330pm. We tried 14mile Slough briefly with a couple on traps but water was stained so we went back to St Francis and Middle River and hung out before hittling Disappointment on the way back to Paradise. Only a few on jigs, D-Bombs, and Stik-O's in black neon (blk/red flk) so the majority were boated on lipless cranks in orange/yellow belly.

    Tips: Not really qualified to give tips but here's what we figured...bass were hangin' in the weed beds so we slow retrieved suspending cordell spots and just did the Rick Clunn thing... nipping the tops of the weeds and not even ripping it when we felt it...we just paused if we felt the weed tops, then slow-rolled and confirmed vibration and wham, the strikes were aggressive. Since I was up front on the trolling motor, it was great using a suspending lipless so when I had to pause and hit the remote, I wasn't worried about my lipless sinking into the weeds...I could pick up where I left off. Oh well, worked for us. I LOVE crankbaitin'.... but gotta get better at jig fishin'..... advice welcome.

Friday, October 9th, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report…. Fall Bite Explosion
    68th Annual Rio Vista Striper Derby Runs now through Sunday. While this has become a huge event for the City of Rio Vista, the Derby itself has become over shadowed by the “Fair Like” atmosphere. If you really care about Striped Bass, join CSBA and get involved with saving our fisheries from idiots like Feinstein and Boxer. Join Here

    Angler’s Choice
    TOC Good Luck to all those Anglers that fished hard All Year to qualify for this Event At Russo’s Marina.

    Isleton
    Finally the salmon bite improved as cooler evening temps take hold. The bite in the area just improved all week. Salmon anglers are seeing success, a few fishing finally started getting an occasional report of success from Salmon searching anglers. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try. Smallies are getting more attention now as 2 to 4 pound fish show more often now… Jigs and flukes are getting them!
    Walnut Grove
    Salmon in numbers with many Great Scores reported Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish.. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemouth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.
    Discovery Bay
    Few More Stripers now starting to group up in the Marina side. R2Sea Rukus and Whopper Ploppers getting smacked. Black Bass cooler evening temps have water temperatures dropping and the bite on upswing!. Stay near main river current with Crankbaits Strike King XD 6 and 2.5 square bills. Bobby D’s Swim Jigs and Spinner baits getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out !
    West Delta
    WOW! Salmon success stories still coming in. Slime Rockets best on the incoming tide with Mepp’s Flying C’s in Pittsburgh and Humphries areas. More Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad. Antioch Pier scored stripers to 38 inches this week. Shad is top offering. The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. Go On Top with Dan’s Delta Mizers, during the day go old school with Hair Jigs Like Dan’s Classic Shimmer jigs or Spro in open water White/Dark Green and White/Blue best this week . Bass Bite stays solid in the Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking Lucke Strike Square bills in bait fish patterns and spinnerbaits is key.
    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Wimpy's around 8:00AM. Fished the South Mokelumne River toward Sycamore Slough. Since it was still the outgoing tide, I decided to throw a top water lure, River2Sea Whopper Plopper 90, in the color powder. My cousin was throwing a small crayfish looking crankbait. On both of our first 2 casts, each of us caught a small size bass. We were casting over the top of weed beds/flats or the edges of the weeds. We made our way down the Mokelumne and went into Hog, Beaver, and Sycamore sloughs. We spent most of the day throwing these lures. Caught 11 keeper size bass (biggest 2.5 lbs) and probably 50+ small bass. I even caught a 6 inch turtle on the whopper plopper. Off the water by 1:00PM.

    The back part of both Beaver and Sycamore sloughs were covered with hyacinths from bank to bank. The front part of Sycamore slough looked like it was sprayed because there was a lot of dead hyacinths, but the back part was a different story.

    Tips: We were using 50lb or 65lb braid. We had to pull most of the fish out of the weeds. We fished top water or shallow running lures most of the day. I had changed the hooks on the whooper plopper to heavier hooks. The front hook was a VMC 4X red treble hook while the tail hook was a custom made dressed Owner 4X treble (white feathers with red flash). The dressed tail hook made the lure tail heavy so the lure didn't float while it was sitting idle, but the action was great when it was retrieved.

Thursday, September 24th, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report….

    East County Fishing rolls as Salmon Stripers surge

    Tournaments return to Big Break Marina with Dan’s Delta Outdoors Striper Series Leading the way back to this Delta Icon! Last minute Check In 430 to 600 am Saturday AM Awards, Raffle and Fun starts at 300 pm. Sodas and snacks will be available.

    R2SeaTournament is just a week away and promises to be Epic event! More Next Week!

    Isleton
    Tough hot temps accompanied by the approaching full moon slowed salmon a bit. Still salmon anglers are seeing success, a few fishing finally started getting an occasional report of success from Salmon searching anglers. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try. Smallies are getting more attention now as 2 to 4 pound fish show more often now… Jigs and flukes are getting them!

    Walnut Grove
    Salmon are increasing in numbers Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned Bank anglers Pile worms and cut baits prevail. Catfish action is getting the most praise, Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemoth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.

    Discovery Bay
    Hot muggy conditions had revitalized the frog for bass anglers. Stay near main river current with Crankbaits Strike King XD 6 and 2.5 square bills. Bobby D’s Swim Jigs and Spinner baits getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out ! Top water stripes are showing in the deep water side. Topwater scoring striped bass on the main river topwater look for birds.

    West Delta
    WOW! More Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad. Antioch Pier scored stripers to 38 inches this week. Shad is top offering. The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. Go On Top with Dan’s Delta Mizers. A few more Salmon success stories have come on the incoming tide with Mepp’s Flying C’s in Pittsburgh and Humphries areas . Bass Bite stays solid in the Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking and spinnerbaits is starting to improve daily.

    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

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    Water Temp: 75

    Report: Got on the water today around 10:30 and the bite was good until around 2:30. Swimming jigs along grass and tule clumps seemed to work okay. Pitching jigs and letting them fall to the base of targets really hasn't been working for me. I caught several nice fish off a 6" hollow body swimbait rigged on a weedless jig head. The water is pretty clear and there is a lot of bait in the water so in order to get bites off the swimbait I had to work it fast and violent. Its a reaction bit and they take it deep. Biggest fish today was pushing 5lbs. The evening bite was not there so I am going to try and get out earlier next time.

    Tips: There are a lot of 12" schoolie stripers out there right now so if you have kids it would be a good time to take em. I caught a bunch off a 1/2 oz team daiwa vibe in the ghost/olive color. The biggest problem with catching these small stripers is removing them from the hook. BE CAREFUL.

Sunday, September 20th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 72 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Big Break on Saturday, out at first-light fishing for some striped bass. At 7:45 the bait fish were popping and the water started to boil at the entrance to Dutch and caught about 7-8 fish on chrome/black rattle trap. Largest was about 20 inches, but most about 12 inches. Rolled into Emerson and caught about 15 LMB ranging in size from dink to 2 pounds, fishing with wacky Trick worm. Off the water by noon before the temperature hit 90 degrees.

    Tips: When the birds start hunting get ready to pick-up your trolling motor and gun it to the first sign of popping bait fish.

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out again on Sunday @ about 7:30 with all intentions on refining my punching skills so just started right from the ramp of oasis (figuring on the fresh release of the tournament fish) to no avail. Haf a little current tossed the swim jig out and picked up two 2lbers so i figured I'd troll around and find em with that then flip the grass around them. More dinks. Figured I had too much weight for flipping the grass clumps so started pitching a white jig hit an outside bend with overhanging bamboo with a clump of grass and my line was under the boat in a hurry, set and a nice 3.75. Tried to duplicate that but couldn't. Went out to the main channel to flip the grass and mats picked up 2 3lbers on the outsider grass but again couldn't put it together. Lots of boats can't wait for the rain

    Tips: None. Just read my previous report and it seems like the big one's are sticking real close and in that deeper water only to come up briefly, from there who knows.

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 69-76

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Man the bite is so much different on the weekends with the traffic. Had a Saturday tourney, it was a tough day mostly 1.5lbers with one going 4.36. The good one came off a swim jig on a grass flat next to a drop, others off a lipless and swim senco. Worked slopoing points, inside bends, and grass points at all different depths, nothing really going except dinks.

    Tips: None really except get away from the boat traffic

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

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    Report: Delta Report…. East County Fishing rolls as Salmon Stripers surge
    Hook series this weekend

    Dan’s Delta Outdoors Striper Series starts 26th September

    Isleton
    Cooler temps and a sprinkle of rain have more Salmon Anglers are seeing success, a few fishing finally started getting an occasional report of success from Salmon searching anglers. Water temperatures have dropped with the cooler evenings. Many anglers to the west are seeing more salmon daily… getting close. . Silvertron’s are the best bet for those who want to try. Smallies are getting more attention now as 2 to 4 pound fish show more often now… Jigs and flukes are getting them!

    Walnut Grove
    Cooler temps have Salmon are increasing in numbers Silvertrons and K-14 getting mentioned Bank anglers Pile worms and cut baits prevail. Catfish action is getting the most praise, Few Stripes are in the area as anglers recover still around as temperatures return more seasonable in the Walnut Grove area as the trolling bite is OK mostly small fish. Best area has been Courtland to Walnut grove. Red Eye Shad and small shad patterned plastics are the top choices here as well. Small swimbaits are scoring Largemoth and Smallmouth in the Meadows.

    Discovery Bay
    Hot muggy conditions had revitalized the frog for bass anglers. Stay near main river current with Crankbaits Strike King XD 6 and 2.5 square bills. Bobby D’s Swim Jigs and Spinner baits getting mentioned often. Jig bite on points is also good, the all new TNT Booby Trap is a great replica of Delta Craws come by and check them out ! Top water stripes are showing in the deep water side. Topwater scoring striped bass on the main river topwater look for birds.

    West Delta
    WOW! More Anglers in search of stripers are finding solid numbers of keeper stripers from both boat and bank. Most of the nice stripers coming soaking Shad. Antioch Pier scored stripers to 33 inches this week. Shad is top offering.The West as in Honker Bay to the Broad Slough plug casting is getting fish when wind cooperates. A few more Salmon success stories have come on the incoming tide with Mepp’s Flying C’s in Pittsburgh and Humphries areas . Bass Bite stays solid in the Break and surrounding cuts. Cranking and spinnerbaits is starting to improve daily.

    Provided by Dan’s Delta Outdoors, 1625 Main St Oakley CA 925/234-4694 Follow us on Facebook

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got the evinrude fixed and took it out for some test runs at mossdale, and she ran great. As soon as I launched stripers started busting so I caught as many as I could without starting the motor, on top of course. Moved on and found some bass on shallow chunk rock with current mostly small. Worked that for awhile then saw some birds working on inside bends so moved over there working out a little deeper and started picking up fish in the 3lb class.

    Tips: If there not hooking up well try down sizing with a similar bait

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Evinrude still down so took the trusty 16 ft nitro out, windy as all hell. No top water, put my buddy on with a spinner and i as well and got after it. Nothin big but fun. Out for about 4 hrs in the afternoon and boated about 20 between the two.

    Tips: Most hit it on a pause as it fluttered in about 5 to 6 ft of water.