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Sunday, August 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the NCBF Turkey Shoot on Sunday out of the Hook. (What a blast) Weather had warmed up a little and the water temp came up a couple of degrees from Saturday. Bite was not good for us on Saturday. However on Sunday it was a different story. Bite improved with the warmer water. Fish were tight to tulie clumps in 3-5 feet of water. Best 2 for me went 8.9 if I remember right. Had a 2.5 that came on a Skitter Pop in the morning and the 4 and 5 came on a Strike King Flippin Tube that was texas riged with a 1/4oz wieght.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Cold weather is making the bite very unpredictable. Normal summer patters are not working as well as in most years. If your not getting bit try other patterns. If it's hot with no wind try frogs otherwise flip tulies and weed lines.

Saturday, July 31st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Track at 5:45AM. Fishing is slow. Cranked a few small ones on a crawdad wiggle wart of rocks. Lost an ok keeper on a Chartreuse Rattle Trap in Holland Cut. My partner and myself each flipped a 3-4 pounder. Chased the high tide south in the morning toward Middle River. Flip bite is slow. Threw a Buzzbait...had one little fish swat at it with no hookup. Got off the water at 1:30PM
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Stay focused.....especially when flippin. I could barely feel the few flip fish I had today.

Friday, July 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: caught high tide fish flipping tight to tullies caught lowtide fish tight to weed lines. flipped all r fish. biggest on a fluke and the rest on a red worm.all fish were in 2'to 5'of water.best 5 went 16 or 17 lbs had a great day with crazy george.
    City: oakley

    Tips: fish seem to not be in the mood to chase the lure all fish came on the initial fall fish slow and flip accurate.

Wednesday, July 28th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to paradise point on Wednesday. Got there about 6:30 , fishing was slow the whole day. I managed to pull in a 3.5# for my first fish and a 2# for the second fish at about 7 or 8 in the morning. I caught another 2# and a 1.5#. Not bad considering fishing was terrible. My friend only managed a 2# the whole day. One thing i was happy about was catching a fish on a spinnerbait. Other than about 5 quality fish I've seen much better days. Oh well that is what fishing is all about. If anybody can email me about how to fish low tide in the delta id appreciate it cause I swear that is the worst time to fish for me.
    City: Galt

Monday, July 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: unsure

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Holland tract area last evening for a couple of hours. Landed three keepers. High tide, fish were tucked down in the weeds. Landed all three on spinner baits; had about half a dozen blow ups on frogs. I guess my reaction time last night was a little slow. Always a nice time on the water.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Slow cranking spinner baits seemed to be the trick.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This last Sunday i had my Cousin Steve Price up from Castaic. He sold his Tracker bout 3 years ago and hasn't really been out bass fishing since. So I took the oppurtunity, to sneak out with him before our family reunion on Sunday. Not having much time and a difficult tide, I took him up to Vierra's Resort and we went smallie fishing on the Sacto River. We fished from 6:00a till 11:00a, from the ramp all the way to Minor Slough. We cranked fish all the way, probably caught 20+ smallies with the biggest goig about 3.5 pounds. The bait of choice was a Rebel Crawdad. We started out with the Brown/orange, then green/orange and finally the dark brown/red. The better fish all came on that red pattern. Fish were along the rocky banks where ever there was a small indentation that broke the current. The best fish came whenever there was a change from old levee rock, to new levee rock. I had one fish come up and grab that crank about 6 feet from the boat, to my surprise, when I lifted it was a 25+ salmon, bright and silver. I hollared at Steve to get that fish, it was lazilly thrashing next to the boat, he asked, "Where's the net", I said, "Don't have one". Should have seen the look on his face. Well, we gave it a valliant effort, but were unable to land this toad. Come to find out, they are running real strong on the Sacto right now, lotts a folks catching em. Might wanna go check this out. This Delta is just amazing!
    City: Oakley

Sunday, July 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing is horrible. there are no fish.A shark was caught at antioch bridge.
    City: clovis

Saturday, July 24th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at 5:30am from Brannan Rec. Park, caught 2 nice 5# with Ratl-trap. Slow from there on until 10ish drag blade near tullies and 3 more around 3-5#. fish those blades real slow.
    City: Union city

    Tips: When I said drag those blade, I meant "drag" it. Let the it hit the bottom, if feel a light strike don't set the hook, wait just a tap.

Friday, July 23rd, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took a friend and my stepson to Walnut Grove for some smallie action. We landed 20 and lost about another 10. The usual crawdad cranks worked: orange/brown shadrap, crawdad fatrap and brown/red poes. Fish went up to 2-1/2 pounds. My friend lost one that was probably around three pounds.
    City: Concord

Thursday, July 22nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at daylight from out of Blue Oaks. Looked in Ramos and Big creek for any topwater action early. Nothing. When sun came up went to wormin caught a few, biggest was 3. Very slow is the word going around.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Main lake points. Slow presentation, long pauses.

Wednesday, July 21st, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good Day, Caught roughly 15 to 20 bass from 1lb to 3lb fish. I and DanDee, started in the mornin with topwater and by 9 went to flippin Jigs and worms. The tide wasn't good at all run from Holland Marina to Coney and up Middle River and back. Followed the tide (Minor tide all day). For the next 10 days fish holes or concentrate near points adjacent to holes.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: Once the tides gets to normal, Hightide: Buzzbait (White).....Lowtide: Holes, Flip or pitch Brown Jigs or s-20 worms.

Monday, July 19th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my best friend from Fresno and my Dad out this past Monday for a little Delta trip. Very memorable day! We got on a good blade, crank bite at low tide on major moss flats. Bass had all pulled out and were balled up on the edges of the moss ripe for the picking. My buddy nails the first fish, a 2.5#, on a blade, and in the next hour, all hell breaks loose! His next bass is a 10# (his first ever!), then a couple 2-2.5#'s, and just for fun, another 3.5#. I FINALLY get into the act with a 2#, 3#, and a 6# on a Rat-L-Trap. My Dad then sticks a 2.5# and dumps a 5+#, all on a blade. Bite was over by about 10:00am, and we went to flippin' Zippers, jigs and Brush Hogs. I picked up another 2.5#, and we managed a few more small keepers. Best seven would have gone close to 30#. Great day, just wish I'd have been in a tournament!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Check those big moss flats with dirty water at low tide! They sure paid off for us!

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished my tourn. with the manteca bassin buddies fishing was tough cuaght 3 that morning on craw crankbait would not go 12 in caught 1 that afternoon went 1.10 BAD!!!!! caught alot more didnt go 12 lunched out of b&w won with 15 # pitch brush hogs (black w/red flake when tide is low to tules,high tide cranks in crawdad color crankbaits off secondary points everything i did i just wasnt in the right place at right time story of my life! well fishing the night tourn. on tulluoch this saturday it is a benefit tourn. go to fishing form and check it out open to everybody. i will report thanks dominick anyone know about tulloch e-me
    City: stockton

    Tips: the fish are in post spawn stage so fishing is tough!!!! try spinner baits in chart. or black and crankbaits on high tide and flip tule in low tide (GO FISH!!!!!!)

Sunday, July 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

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Saturday, July 17th, 1999

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Pro-Teen event on Saturday. The bite was tough, but we caught(and lost) some quality fish, including a Striper about 6#. All of our fish were caught in current breaks,tight to cover,on jig/super chunk, or jig/grub combos. We got the striper on a wiggle wart, and missed one fish on a buzzbait.
    City: Hollister

    Tips: The bite is TOUGH right now, keep at it, and you'll be rewarded.

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    Water Temp: 75-77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a club tournament Saturday out of Laurentzens (Wished I could have been at the Pro/Teen). Bite was tough, could only manage 4 keepers with one good fish that weighed 5.27. The 5+ came on a Chartruse Snag Proof frog. He was on a point that had small patches of grass on it and was only in 2' of water. Most fish seem to be in areas with current, weeds, and either tulies or wood.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Try points with current. I flipped most fish on black/red plastic. If weather heats back up and wind dies down try the topwater bite.

Thursday, July 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished the Delta Thursday after work with a friend and another friends son. We landed six fish to three pounds and lost about twice that many. My friends son is just starting out bass fishing and was having a hard time setting the hook (he's mainly been trout fishing up to this year) and consequently he lost a lot of fish. It was all topwater action, buzzbaits, frogs and jitter-bugs. Nice evening on the water.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Don't forget to try a jitter-bug at high tide. Some awsome and explosive hits!

Monday, July 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: way high!!!!!

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday - fished Frank's Tract, Connection and Middle R. near Bullfrog. Caught 20+ fish ranging from dinks to 5#. Most on frogs, jigs and large plastics. Two biggest fish (5# and 3#) came on jig and frog, respectively. Saturday - fished Frank's Tract, Piper and Middle R. during B/C Memorial Tournament. Caught 15 fish...weighed 7 fish limit at 14#. Biggest fish around 3 pounds. Most fish caught on C-rig plastics (black/red). Biggest fish came on black spinnerbait.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Cold + windy early, hot later.....found best fish below 6 feet deep apparently avoiding both temperature extremes. Caught nothing shallow.

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    Water Temp: 70 - 82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sat - went out with a few club members, I backseated for Big Daddy. Could not buy a popper bite, but Mr. Big boated our big fish of the day first thing on a woym, first cast. Moved to Telephone, got bit but all small. That was the story for the day. We got bit steadily till about 10, then the bite turned off at slack tide. Br. Big then hooked a TOAD. She got under/through something, though, and we tried for about 20 min. to get her. She did not come off, but weigh in was at noon, so we finally had to break her off. The big fish for our little group was a 6-7# beauty. Sun - Few nice keepers incl. a 2.5# on poppers(!?)Had a couple of bucks on jigs, then bite turned off for 4 hours. Bite came back on in afternoon with the tide and lower sun. 9 keeper+ fish for the day.
    City: belmont

    Tips: Summer time patterns. The cheese is ripe.

Saturday, July 10th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Paradise from 6:30AM until Noon with a couple of CVBC members-Fished Disappointment and Honkers. Decided to live or die with a jig-Fished brown/brown jig until 10:30AM-End result-Death w/jig-Caught 3 keepers on brass-n-glass on a witches tea. Witty caught a nice 4#er on white blade-Will try and resurrect jig next time. Mayday out
    City: Belmont