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Wednesday, February 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53-54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished out of big break today . wow was it tough ... what happened to the good bite of last week . was pre fishing for the aba this sunday . i got two fish a 1 and 1/2 on a spinnerbait and a 2 and 1/2 on a rattle trap. the only thing my partner got was a 2 lb steelhead !!!!! cought cranking a speed trap.. no fog.. flat calm
    City: SUNNYVALE

Monday, February 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished lafayette Friday with a friend. The trout didn't seem to want bait for us, but I did pick up two by tossing a small brass Castmaster. The larger one went 7 pounds and was 22 inches long. She absolutly crushed the lure so hard it actually knocked the reel off the rod. I'm glad my friend was there to help me get the reel back on the rod while keeping the tension on the fish. The other was a nice 17 incher that jumped 5 times. I didn't know the bait shop was closeing at 5PM so I didn't get on their board as I went up at 5:30, to bad since this was my first really big trout ever.
    City: Richmond

    Tips: Brass castmasters in small sizes. Slow retrieve is best.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out a before lunch for a few hours. Started with blue bird skies, Couldn't get the jig bite going. Fish had moved back off. Dropshotted a 2 lber off a 10 ft dropoff, clouds moved in the afternoon and cranked 4 fish off sunken Island with a rattle trap on the edge of slope.
    City: Tracy

Sunday, February 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51 to 54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Jr and I went out of Del's ... Fished Old River,Victoria, Woodward and Disco... Didn't get bit (+(..Cranked,pitched, bladed,flipped and yes!!!! We even splitshotted.. Still Nada
    City: Dublin

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Delta Federation out of Ladds, I only mustered one bite, delerious fish ate my bomber crankbait almost at the boat, that was the only bite for me and my non-boater, tough day was had by alot of anglers, we tried everything , even the dropshot didnt produce.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: I found it was time to run and gun and find active fish, after catching one I stayed there and worked the area reel good. good luck Procraft Pete

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished every bait but the one that worked and went everywhere but where the fish were. Fished from 7 to 3 and only got 1 bite.
    City: tracy

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Angler's Choice Delta Region Sunday. Bite was tough, only took 16+ for 5 fish to win. High presure and cooling water temp seems to have slowed the bite conciderably. We had only 3 fish/6.8#s for the day, 2 flipping and 1 on a Speed Trap. We fished a couple of sloughs with depths from 2-15 feet. All our fish came from 3-7 feet of water. The flip fish came off of transition zones from weed flats to deeper tulie banks. Crank fish came off a weed flat. All three fish and out other bites came on downsized baits. 1/8 ounce Speed Trap and a 4 inch grub.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Bite seems to vary day to day. Friday was great and by Sunday it was fairly slow. When high presure moves in after a front be sure to downsize your offerings.

Friday, February 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished Frank's Tract on Friday (2-4-00) and landed three stripers and 2 bass to 1.5 lbs. Fished rattletraps.
    City: Concord

    Tips: fish the current lines in the tule breaks

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    Water Temp: 51-52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had my best day ever today a 7.2, 5.4, 4.1 and two 3 lber's for my five best. Had a few two lber's as well. All on jigs, best fish came in 3 to 5 ft on wood. Others were in 6 to 10 ft on riprap away from current.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Take a jig lesson from Cooch. I did last year in February.

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Franks Tract today, throwing Tora Tubes (white) to boils of Striped Bass. Landed over a dozen 5lb to 7lb range. To many shakers to remember, though I was starting to get tired of them by 1:00pm. Best day in a long time at Franks.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Watch for the birds and surface disturbance, this indicates Striper feeding activity. Use your electric motor to approach slowly (fish very spooky on sunny days). White Plastics seem to work the best this time of year. Light line and a good drag a MUST!!!! (contact me for more info.)

Saturday, January 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of King Is. Honker cut is mud. Fished middle river it was o.k. clarity wise not fish wise. Fished Whisky and outside of mildred, main channel and St. Francis. I cranked speedtraps and rattletraps and filpped alittle with jigs. My success rate??? Nothing, nada, zip. The worst day I ever had on the delta. But I'll figure'em out. Talked to a couple of other boats and they had nothing also. Very tough day. Well for me it was.
    City: Wilton

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    Water Temp: ? gotta get a s

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got out late and ended early. No fish. 2 dinks on shad crank in disco. mostly out playing with new tolling motor.
    City: belmont

    Tips: hibernate till spring, or go north

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    Water Temp: 52-55.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwoods,took a nice calm ride to Dels, fished Dels, no luck. Headed back up to Victoria, Italian, Venice Island, Thoght I would throw that 7A, Again no luck, Threw all types of cranks,Blades, Finally around Cruiser hevan, started throwing that Yomomoto green skirted split-tail, landed 4 bass( total 10lbs). Tough bite, with the watertemps up, and water calm, just about threw a BUZZ! in JANUARY.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Light jig head 1/8oz short lifts and drops worked at the end 2:00pm

Thursday, January 27th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Wimpy's Marina about 11 am and fished until about 2 pm. Tide was moving fast and very muddy. Wasn't able to locate any largemouths, but did all right on the stripers. While throwing a speed trap at some levee breaks, much to my amazement, I landed two spripers. The biggest went 20 pounds and the other 18 1/2 pounds. The fun part was trying to lip them once the fight was over. Anyway, I had thought the striper bite was over in that area. Sorry about the striper story, I prefer to give my report on the bucketmouths, but nothing to report.
    City: Suisun

    Tips: When the water is too muddy and the current is rippin', try fishing the levee breaks for stripers. It fills in the time between the bass bites.

Sunday, January 23rd, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out of Holland Track first thing. Partner hit a small one on a rattle trap in Rock Slough. I had a swirl on a suspending jerk bait but no takers. No other bites in Rock. Wandered down towards Orwood and he picked off another fish on wood in shallow water. We both missed a fish on the same spot. Mine bit my grub in half. When out to old river and up around Mandevile and I picked one off on a white speed trap. About 15 min. later nailed the last fish of the day on a jig in 14ft of water next to a dock piling. Fishing was sporadic. Landed 4 fish, 2 each.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Look for wood with deep water access. Fish seemed to be holding to wood. The south Delta is muddy but north of Orwood the water was still pretty clear.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my dad started out fishin the break today, it was windy and rainy all day. We drove down near franks tract and started crankin. From 8:00 to about 12:30 we landed 9 keepers biggest being around 4#. Also caught 2 nice steelhead. We were using the same model crankbait but in different colors. My dads seemed to be working alittle better as he caught 7 of the fish. The fish seemed to be everywhere,rocks,tules,and wood. Wanted to stay out and fish but my wallmart rain gear wasn't doin the job.
    City: tracy

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    Water Temp: 50 ish not sure

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wow! What a terrible day to be on the water. Fished Sunday, All day. Wind was bad 20 to 30 knots, Never stoped raining. Fished the lighthouse, Riverboat, and up in the Mukolumne(sp??). Could not buy a bite. Fliped jigs, BB Brush hog, Riped, Cranked, Nothin. Until I put on a fluke. Bingo. I wish I put one on before 2 pm..... I had 5 hits in less that an hour. in very shallow water. They were all medium sized fish. nothin bigger that 3 pounds
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fluke brite colors, shallow, Wood, Out of current.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of lazy M at about 6:30.Cranked rip rap all day, took 4 fish,(about 10lbs total) one fish went 5lbs.All but one fish came on a red speed trap, and craw colored rattle trap. One came on a Power Worm on tules. Best I could do.got off the water about 1:00.Still beat anything else I could have been doing. Go get em!!!
    City: Fremont

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my kickboat to the delta for the first time today. My firiend and I caught 5 fish between us. We both missed 2 other fish. One I missed felt pretty big. I caught mine all with a shad speed tap paralleling riprap. My friend fished weedlines. My friend also caught a steelhead on his team daiwa crankbait! I didn't know there were steelhead in the delta. Over all it was an ok day. Pretty good for my first time at the delta. It was also pretty warm. The fishing should improve as the water warms. All our bass were in the one pound range except one that I hooked on a pointer minnow that felt big.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Fish shad colored speed traps slow parallel to riprap or deep weedlines.

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my kickboat to the delta for the first time today. My firiend and I caught 5 fish between us. We both missed 2 other fish. One I missed felt pretty big. I caught mine all with a shad speed tap paralleling riprap. My friend fished weedlines. My friend also caught a steelhead on his team daiwa crankbait! I didn't know there were steelhead in the delta. Over all it was an ok day. Pretty good for my first time at the delta. It was also pretty warm. The fishing should improve as the water warms. All our bass were in the one pound range except one that I hooked on a pointer minnow that felt big.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Fish shad colored speed traps slow parallel to riprap or deep weedlines.