California Delta and Reports

Saturday, July 17th, 1999

• By DDawg

  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.

• By Dewayne

  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

• By Monty

  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

• By NaCl

  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.

• By tommyp

  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

• By Mayday

  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

• By D Hinrichsen

  Water Temp: ?

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Delta top water going strong, try buzz baits and frogs, also some action on poppers. Best bites are in the early morning or latter on in the afternoon. If you can find moss matts throw a frog. Try a white buzz bait in franks track in the deeper water next to toolies. Both big and little Break producing some nice fish, also fishermans cut for some smaller fish. Look for slack water at the mouth of slews, fish are stacked in these areas, made 8 casts and cought 5 fish. We fished the afternoon bite to late evening and had over 30 fish, no big ones, but a lot of fun.
  City: Dixon

  Tips: look for moss, fish the weedles water between the rocks and grass. Fish early or fish late. Bring the sun screen.

Thursday, July 8th, 1999

• By Mayday

  Water Temp: n/a

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Got on the water @ 7AM. First fish @ 7:45AM on Chug Bug 1#er. Trolling motor prop came off @ 7:46AM. (ERRRR) Ran to Knowles for replacement prop at 9AM. 2nd fish at TommyP's tree @ 11AM on white/chart spinnerbait another 1#er. Last fish on split shot junebug worm 1.5-2#er in tight to tules @ 1PM. Left at 2PM-3 fish total-Mayday out.
  City: Belmont

Tuesday, July 6th, 1999

• By tommyp

  Water Temp: 74 - 80

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Went Fri, Sat & Mon Fri - Had a good (for me) day. Popped fish early, jigged & wormed rest of the day. 14 in all Sat - popped fish early, then got off the water as the wind and (*&%*&^%skiers and pleasure boaters came out - just five Mon - the usual in the morning, jigged the rest of the day, just 6 in all
  City: belmont

  Tips: As the days in the weekend wore on, the fisher were tighter & tighter to cover - popper seemed to work better than buzzers lately. Don't be afraid to pop until late morning in areas that haven't had direct sun yet. Look for east banks with trees.

Monday, July 5th, 1999

• By newcomer

  Water Temp: 73-75

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: the boy and i went out at first light went to a break in a island the boy caught his first nice bass a solid 3# bass that had a bleeding tail must of been on a bed still???????? caught several fish on flukes in the current fish were tight to the bank for the most part.
  City: oakley

Saturday, July 3rd, 1999

• By KEN H.

  Water Temp: 78+

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: FISHED EARLY W/ A GREAT TIDE FOR SHERMAN LAKE..BUZZ BAIT 'N BLADES (CHART/BRONZE HAMMERED COMBO BLADES)SEEMED TO BE THE TRICK..LOTS OF 3-4#'S A LITTLE CLEARER WATER SEEMED TO REALLY HOLD MORE FISH.. PG/E WAS WINDY BUT PICKED UP A FEW..WENT TO DUTCH SLOUGH WERE 'EVERYONE'ELSE WAS AND PICKED UP A 7# WITH A BLUE/BLACK JIG W/ A JUNEBUG TRAILER, PARTNER PICKED UP A 4# W/ A BRO/CHART ZIPPER WORM..7# SCARED THE HECK OUT OF ME WASN'T READY AND WHEN I SAW MY ROD HEADED FOR THE TULES FIGURED I BETTER SET THE HOOK AND HOLD ON! GOT HOT WENT HOME B4 CRAZY WEEKENDERS GOT OUT...
  City: FREMONT

  Tips: NEVER GOT TO THROW THE FROG UNFORUTNATELY BUT LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME...STAY AWAY FROM THOSE ^)&^*)*(^ JETSKIERS!!JIGS/WORMS WHEN THE SUN GETS UP FIND SHADE AND COOLER H20..

Friday, July 2nd, 1999

• By Rich Thiel (Hookpoint)

  Water Temp: 80's

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Fished the Turkey NCBF Shoot, placed sixth by flippin Brown jig with Junebug Trailer in calm water all morning. Best 5 fish would of went 16-18lbs. Caught the fish in 1ft to 2ft of water. Was fishin off of old river (Cuts)
  City: Castro Valley

  Tips: Waters starting to clear with no cloud cover throw brown jigs with Plastic trailer tight to tules or in them with 20lb line (you'll need it, he he). Worms color SP-20 or a Junebug/Pumkin made by Rainbow Worms

Thursday, July 1st, 1999

• By Cooch

  Water Temp: 78-85

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Took the day off yesterday for some much needed R&R on the Delta. Skies were clear and blue and very warm when we launched. My guide trip this day wanted a summer jig lesson. We started of pitching brown jigs with a 164 Yamamoto twin tail, picked up a couple of real nice fish early including a 7+. All fish were cauhgt on deep wood structure. By 9:00, we changed patterns and went to fishing deeper as the surface temp was over 80 degrees. Noticed at about 10-15 foot depths, the temp was a cooler 68-72, depending on where we were at. We switched to a black jig with a Junebug twin tail and caught fish the rest of the day doing this through out the central Delta. A couple of keys were involved in locating these better fish. First we had to have little current. We fished deep weed lines next to tulles birms that had a flat adjacent to the drop. This area is used as a spawning ground for the bass as was evident by the number of schools of fry we saw. If there was no fry, we never got bit. We caught another over 7+ and a couple at 4-5, aong with many in that 2-3 pond range. Cooch
  City: Oakley

Monday, June 28th, 1999

• By TommyP

  Water Temp: 68 - 83

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Went out Sat 6/26, & 6/27 Sat - did good, bite changed throughout the day. Morning - poppers and spinnerbaits, afternoon jig bite. Sun - went out with Mayday, got a nice keeper on popper, couple on worms, then moved to the jig. Not as good as Sat, but between us, we got 11.
  City: belmont

  Tips: The muddy, warm water seemed to have NO fish. Best areas are big blocky riprap with sparse tules. The cheese is almost ripe.

Sunday, June 27th, 1999

• By Rudy

  Water Temp: N/A

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Started the day in a small harbor, my partner and I threw blades and I stuck a 6lb.bass. We caught fish on worms as well. Not much wind made for a hot day. The fish seemed to be on the bank, even on the falling tide.
  City: San Lorenzo

  Tips: Blades (white/chart) Worms (Junebug/elect.blue)

Friday, June 25th, 1999

• By Joe

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Launched out of Brannon Island about 5:30. WINDY but fishable made our way into Little Franks Tract and I landed two fish over two pounds in there. My friend was just having one of those days of not catching fish. I was using a 6 inch red/green worm which produced some fish. I lost a 4 or 5 pounder at the boat, oh man if that doesnt break your spirit hehe. Oh well next time!!
  City: Galt

  Tips: Flips those tulees!

Thursday, June 24th, 1999

• By Mike, " TheMadDog" Busco

  Water Temp: about 53 degree

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Once again, the wind got the best of us. Taylor and Dutch Slough a very hot commodity. Black Bass hanging tight, close to bank, and in the middle of tules. Presentation is the main ingredients here. Where crankbaits did fair Red or Orange seem to be the color of chioce. But it was once again, hands down, no questions asked, the star of the show, Pig'n Jig. Combination of Black/Brown, 3/8s with a #11 Uncle Josh Pork Frog, and diner is seved. Caught about (30)in a five hour period. We were Flippin and a pitching. I strongly recommend at least a 20lb test.
  City: Antioch

  Tips: Can't tell you where my exact fishing-holes are, but have aleast a couple of jigs in brown, black, dark blue. Don't forget the Pork Rind. You need the higher pound test line for snags that pop up now and then. "Good Luck"

Sunday, June 20th, 1999

• By Michael Clouatre

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Launched out of Holland. Fished Connection Slough with no luck. Went over to Mildred and wormed the tullies. Between my partner and I, we caught over 50 fish, the biggest 7 pounds. I had a five fish limit of 15 pounds. All of the fish were caught on an oxblood worm. Never felt any of the big fish hit, just saw the line moving.
  City: fremont

  Tips: watch your line

• By Big Mike

  Water Temp: n/a

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Got to get out on Father's Day. Didn't get out until 2:30. Launched at Ladd's. There were a LOT of boats out. This ended up mostly being an exploring trip. Drove down the San Joaquin, by Tiki Lagoon, and around McDonald Island. Saw a few spots that looked nice, but got no fish. Did fish on weed choked slough. Slightly overcast with a slight breeze. Used a white buzzbait with a white trailer. Caught something like eight in the span of 1/2 an hour. That was fun. In the other areas we tried worms, spinner baits, and craw speed traps without success.
  City: Sacramento

  Tips: I was lead to believe that buzzbaits don't work until it warms up some. Today showed me it's warm enough to start throwing buzzbaits

Saturday, June 19th, 1999

• By Big Moe

  Water Temp: n/a

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Got a late start today. On the water by 12:30. Fished the out going tide flipping jigs under docks and into wood cover. Caught six, all between 1 to 3 pounds, before switching to a buzzbait. Caught a dink on that until I spotted a nice weed bed and decided to throw a frog. Had a pig blow up on my second cast but I didn't hook him. Missed another a few casts later and then called it a day.
  City: Lafayette

  Tips: Brown jigs w/ grub trailer, buzzbaits, and frogs when possible.