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Saturday, January 24th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The bite has continued to be tough for the past couple of weeks with occasional bursts when the water warms and/or we get stable weather for a day or so. it can go from slow and finesse to wide open and reaction, rips and blades, very quickly. lots of smaller fish when windows open up and some bigguns, as Cooch noted, thrown in the mix.
    City: stockton

    Tips: I have had better luck fishing the time of day vs tides the past few weeks. the tide will position them but they are chewing mid-late afternoon no matter the tide. best depth - 8-11ft

Monday, January 19th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 49.5 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Big Break on Sunday. Took the Fog on, weather warm outside. Minimal wind. Water was real muddy. Put in at low tide, incoming. Most fish hanging on the bottom, we tried to coax 'em off the bottom with jigs and spoons but to no avail. Threw into tules with no return. My buddy caught one striper on a blue flapping hog, about 15 inches.
    City: Orinda

    Tips: Stay home and watch the Super Bowl. The water isn't going to clear for at least a week or two.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Slow Day - I fished many of my favorite spots in the east delta for a couple fish. I threw the whole tackle box at them for nada until about 3:00 p.m. when I finally woke up a couple using a white homemade soft plastic swimbait. The largest was 3-1 and the smaller was 2-5. I used all of the typical winter type lures and tried to slow the presentation way down but most of the day was just spent exercising my casting/flipping/pitching arm. It was a bit cool and overcast but nice to get out there at any rate.
    City: Stockton

Sunday, January 11th, 2015

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    Water Temp: 46-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: Clear Skies, Cold air temps
    Lake Level: High to low tides\Best Depths: 3-5 on rocky flats, 8-12 in the deeper grass beds.
    Much of the River this past week has been very stained, locating clearer backwaters is a challenge still with the dying hyacinth still floating all over the river. Fishing has been tough, with bites few and far between. Dropshotting very slow with a 7" Ro
    Big Bass: 3-5 on rocky flats, 8-12 in the deeper grass beds.
    Nothing over 4 pounds the past week.
    Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.COM\Name & Number: Cooch's Fishing 925-732-3293

    Tips: Darker colors are producing best in the stained waters, find clearer areas and lighter colors will produce.

Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

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    Water Temp: 45-50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Muddy water everywhere. Cleaner water in flooded islands and dead end sloughs. Found a spot with healthy grass and 5 degree warmer water. Marked fish but couldn't get them to bite. Two stripers elsewhere inside island and on break. Those were the only two bites we got all day and they were both an inch short! I caught mine on a jerkbait. My cousin caught his using a fly rod and some sort of tiny little buck tail jig. Saw another guy on a break pull out an LMB using a fly rod as well.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: I can't fish slow enough to catch fish in the winter. I'm guessing if you can slow down you'll have better luck than me.

Monday, December 29th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 48-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: High Pressure, Blue skies, no wind
    Lake Level: Normal, incomming to out go afternoon.\Best Depths: Most productive depths this week for blackies has been in clearer water, lottsa grass at 8-12 feet. Still catching a lot of schoolie stripers in 2-5 feet up in the flats and around the tulles of the flooded islands.
    The post frontal cold weather made fer very tough fishing this past week. Water temps fell below 50 to 48-49 the past four days and much of the River is stained to very dirty. Morning bite has been nonexistant with the exception of picking off a few schoo
    Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.COM

    Tips: Winter is definately here, gotta slow WAY down and fish methodically for bites.

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

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    Water Temp: 54-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Only had a a few hours to fish and was really out just to muck around with new electronics. Marked a bunch of fish around the Russo's but out in the middle of the channel. No takers but water was pretty murky. Ran south and found some clean water. Caught a couple small keepers + 3 more bites inlcuding a good sized one that broke me off. Ran out of time and had to return home.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Found fish in healthy hydrilla. They were on the outer edges and in holes. All my bites were on drop shot but I'm bringing the punch rod next time out. Did not get any reaction bait bites including 10' crank, Staysee 90, chatter bait, Spook.

Saturday, December 20th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Overall a good day considering the conditions. Some areas had about 10in of visibility and 55 water temp which made the bites far and few between. Bigger squarebills in bright colors and of coarse, blk blue jig, accounted for our bites. looked for cleaner water and the fish were definitely chewing! Dropshotted for the remainder of the day with good results.
    City: stockton

    Tips: look for clean water and fish deep or cover lots of shallow water with a crank or jig. in the dirty water expect only a handful of bites but thy will be good quality ones.

Saturday, December 13th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 54-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: Overcast, cold, 5-7 mph winds
    Lake Level: High due to rains, back to normal on Saturday\Best Depths: Jig fish are all coming from 4-6 on the rocks and 8-12 feet out off the bank in the grass. The active reaction fish are all in 3-6 foot up on the flats with sparse grass adjacent to tules.
    Fishing after the storms was very productive for us, due to the rains much of the Delta has become stained to dirty moving fish shallow. The fish were active and aggressively feeding, if ya roll up and don't git bit, move on till ya find em! Paddle tailed
    Big Bass: Jig fish are all coming from 4-6 on the rocks and 8-12 feet out off the bank in the grass. The active reaction fish are all in 3-6 foot up on the flats with sparse grass adjacent to tules.12/13/2014 - Largemouth
    Nothing over 6.5 lbs the past two weeks
    Top of incomming
    Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.COM\Name & Number: Cooch's Fishing 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: See Website

    Tips: As is the case in winter, you've got to slow down, very slow retrieves on the swimbaits and 4-6 sec pauses on the jerkbaits produced strikes, where faster constant retrieves did not. Long pitches with a slowere hop-n-pop of the jig produced strikes, very few fish bit on the initial fall of the jig.

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    Water Temp: 54-56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had super low expectations since we were fishing right after storm but ended up having a great time. No big ones but caught 12, 17 total for two of us. Fished breaks at the north end of Franks but water was pretty stained, 6"-1' visibility. Ran down to Little Mandeville where the water was much cleaner, 3-4' visibility. Started catching them on breaks, grass channels, *1 dock*, edges of hyacinth mats. Caught em on jerkbait and dropshot. Buddy caught a couple on spoon as well. Only one small keeper out total fish but still had fun.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Almost all the jerkbait bites came on a long pause (10-20s secs) and were passive.

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 56-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Decent weekend on the delta, fished both Sat and Sun, winning our local TOC. Sat was slow and cold with a bad tide. still managed a pretty good bag all things considered. Focused on the outside edge of large flats and found fish in the 2-2.5lb range hot on jigs and senkos. Next stop fished dropshot in connection with my HDS to find tightly schooled bass in deeper water, 11-13ft. got our kicker. focused on current edges and deep swings. had our bag and stopped fishing at noon. Sun was a lot tougher early , started with finesse baits but the bite opened up at 11a - 2pm wide open but no size except a 5lb. all reaction. should probably kept with reactions longer to the start the in hindsight.
    City: stockton

    Tips: even if the weather is bad, if has been stable (rain or shine)for a day, the fish will adjust and go back to eating reaction baits. fishing in the 10+ range was a pattern this weekend and where the more consistent bite was, but never sleep on a shallow water reaction bite aft the weather has remained the same for a day or two

Thursday, November 27th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My son and I went out Thursday and Friday looking for both stripers and largemouth. We worked Franks Tract, rip rap walls near deep water and Mildred Island. We found a lot of fish both days with jerk baits (we caught 20-25 each both days), but nothing of any size. We did catch 5 or 6 keeper stripers and 5 or 6 largemouth in the 1.5-2 lb range, but everything else were dinks and shakers. It was a lot of fun with lots of action, but just didn't find any big bites.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Not sure I'm qualified to give any tips, but the jerk bait was working for us everywhere we went. Even in areas where a dropshot was the hot bait a few weeks ago we were only catching fish on the jerkbait.

Thursday, November 20th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 57.5-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: Cloudy, raining
    Lake Level: Rising tide\Best Depths: 4-10 feet has been best, although a few shallower fish were flipped yesterday.
    The falling temps are moving Delta bass closer to winter patterns. Fishing has been a grind still and requires moving and trying various areas and conditions. Rip baits have been providing the majority of our bites every day, yet with the temps still fall
    Big Bass: 4-10 feet has been best, although a few shallower fish were flipped yesterday.11/20/2014 - Large Mouth - 6.0 pounds
    Our biggest fish of the week, a 6+, came out in 10 feet dragging through the deep grass.
    In comming
    Guide Information: www.CoochsFishing.COM\Name & Number: Andy "COOCH" Cuccia 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Call or E-mail [email protected]

Saturday, November 15th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: started in Franks Tract, lot of smaller fish on a 6" dropshot in Robo MM and deeper red colors. lots of ripbait fish too up to 2.5lbs. endless amount of dinks-2 lbs. went down river and cranked rock walls with better fish to 3 lbs. finally decided to go shallow looking for a big bite. got into some water off main channel near good current on a flat in the afternoon. lost a TOAD, boated a 3.5, 4 and 5.25 in 20 minutes tossing bigger baits.
    City: stockton

    Tips: listen to your bites, don't get caught up thinking they aren't biting or only biting finesse presentations. fall afternoons can pay off when the sun has warmed water even if a couple of degrees.

Thursday, November 13th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 61-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: Cooling, slight overcast
    Lake Level: Low flow and swings on the tides\Best Depths: 6-10 feet
    Cooling temps are bringing a transition to the Delta bass, they have began to move shallower and are grouping in the grass flats off ledges and drop offs. Still a number of smaller fish hanging in areas with strong current flows. Ripbaits and lipless cran
    Guide Information: Cooch's Fishing\Name & Number: WWW.Coochsfishing.COM 925-732-3293

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from Franks to Potato slough. Got about 15-20 combo fish, but they were all small with nothing over 2lbs, including the stirpers. For Ray in the Lund boat: I should've showed you this umbrella stand I rigged up to keep the sun off oneself. If you read this and are interested, you can email me [email protected]

    Tips: In the early a.m. topwater walking baits will help you locate schoolie stripers. Wish I knew what was doing to give you more tips.

Saturday, October 11th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Brannon island at around 12, ran and fished little franks tract til around 6, bite was decent. Craw dad colored crank baits . Lost about a 10 pound striper on a 3/4 ounce rattle trap ..work the rip rap with sparse tules
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Find water that drops off quickly

Friday, October 10th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: What a difference a week makes...and all the other factors (weather, moon, tide, floating weed "South American Spongeplant"), I googled it and that's what it's called... Anyways, launched early dark about 6am out of B&W cuz there were some striper guys gettin' ready for a derby so figured we better get launched. Went straight to Potato Slough and started off great... threw a sweet beaver to the rockwall and a 3.6 immediately inhaled it. Really thought it was gonna be on but only managed about 20 dink to 11"ers for that wall. Moved across and worked opposite rock wall but the wind on both sides made it difficult to maintain our deepv with only 55lb thrust. Yeah, someday I'll have an ultimate bass boat but till then, it's deepvbassin'! So anyways, back to today's fishin'.... changed to senko and picked up a few more 1 and 2lbers, about 5 I think....and probably another 15-20 spunky 8-11inchers. Off the water by 1pm.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Not really qualified to give tips... and today, what landed plenty of 2-3lbers last 2 weekends only got us 1 limit of keepers today between my bud and me. I used watermelon/red sweet beaver with red claws T-rigged with 1/4oz bullet w/bobber stop. Then switched to 5" watermelon/red Big Bite Baits Trick Stick both t-rigged and wacky... 25pk is cheap at Tackle Warehouse and these last longer than Senkos...I guess that could be my tip...BBB trick stick from TW 25/$5.99 :) Tryin again Sunday!

Monday, September 29th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 71-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather: Changing all week, cloud, rains, blue bird
    Lake Level: Out going tides all morning\Best Depths: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
    These River bass are reading the "Book". One would have thought all week with the changing weather and overcast skies they might take off, yet quite the opposite was true. The numbers are still there, a lot of smaller fish in the 1-3 pound range all week
    Big Bass: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
    We only had three fish last week out of 6 days of fishing that went over 7 pounds, we did have a larger number of fish in the 4
    Guide Information: Cooch's Fishing, 2737 Alcala St, Antioch Ca. 94509\Name & Number: Cooch - 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Plenty of open dates in October!

    Tips: Fish points, look for current and stick to 6-18 foot depths

Sunday, September 28th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started 830am out of B&W; worked the rockwall at start of the Moke with blk/blk cavitron buzzbait but only one blowup; did this for 5 mins and went to watermelon/red flk senko. started hooking up 12" to 2lbers. when the veggie flotillas got too thick, we headed to potato slough and worked more rockwalls with the senkos and buddy used 6-7" roboworms in shad pattern... continued picking up lots of 8" to 13" and a few nice 1-2lbers. ended the day with a 5.5 lber grabbing my buddy's senko.
    City: folsom

    Tips: No tips as usual...just what worked for us: watermelon/red flk 5" senko T-rigged on owner 2/0 ball finesse ultrahead. Buddy used 5" shad pattern senko wacky on 1/0 Gamakatsu wide gap finesse. We worked the rock walls and inside/outside weedlines and also little cuts in those huge veggie flotillas attaching themselves to everything. but on clear rockwalls, we just kept throwin the senko to the wall and then immediately locking up so it would pendulum swing down along the wall and clear the rocks..then I'd jiggle it like a flickshake and next thing I'd see my line moving sideways. Worked for me.

    btw...we did have one bassboat with three guys leapfrog about 30-40yds in front of us with no regard for our drifting in that direction. They were across behind us and no way could have missed us drifting in that direction. Oh well, I don't do that to others but I guess that's ok to do? We still continued to hook up anyway as we worked the same wall behind them so i guess they left us some fish to catch (well that's my preferred positive way to look at it).