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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out o River's end Saturday and hal day Sunday. Tried new water in South Delta. Got on pretty good bite with brown jig and blades. Saturday 4 ish to 3 lbs in a couple o hours, missed several more-igured I had located ish, so let them alone or ishing next day, and ran north, caught 4 stripers to 12 lbs lost one decent (2lbs) black bass at boat on rip bait. Sunday went back to South delta area that I had located ish on. Got out late, but managed 12 black bass, no monsters, best was 4 lbs, but a number o 2 and 3 lbers as well. All in a small area, seemed bunched up. Nice part is that I barely burned any uel. Finally managing to solve the South Delta riddle a little bit. Total was 16 blackies or the weekend, all decent ish, and 4 stripers. Tried a variety o stu, best luck was with blades and jigs. Couple o rip bait ish as well. Because I saw others ishing the area that may have been preishing or tourneys, I cannot be more speciic, but the generel pattern was sun exposed banks, deined weedline with 6-9 eet o water on weedline edge, and a little current. I water was not moving, or moving too ast, no ish. I less than 4 eet, no ish. I no cover, no ish. Midday was best. The hits were all very light, no real thunks or taps. Even the blade bites were simply my noticing something "dierent", and setting the hook - caught a lot o weeds, but some ish as well.Good luck to all,and God Bless.Rob T
    City: Hal Moon Bay

    Tips: Fish seemed to be moving into winter pattern. Real slow retrieve needed on all baits.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Nat and I were up on Saturday to preish or the Hook Tourney..Thick og, but started to thin out around 10 or so..Tried a lot o everything, but not much luck..Nat inally naile one (about threepounds about 30 minutes beore we called it quits..Sunday we launched at irst light..Some rain, but the wind was not too bad..No og..Started out lipping jigs and tossing spinnerbaits, couldn't buy a bite..Tried some crank baits and lipping senkos..Nothing on the cranks, we nailed a 4+ and a 2+ on senkos lipped into the tules with deep water nearby..It was enough to put us in 13 place out o 56 boats..
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tried the normal cold water and all baits, my only comment is to keep trying them and try to work in areas near deeper water..

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went into work and just couldn't stand looking out the window and watching that rain come in. Finally decided to call it a day at noon and trailered the boat to the S. Delta. The reaction bite was on. Launched at around 1pm which was high water down south. Had a limit on blades and cranks in 30 min. Over the next 2 hours I caught 16 ish and most were 2.5-3# chunks. Some good ish moved shallow with the stop and go ran and overcast skys. I stuggled a bit with the lower water in the evening ishin outside weedlines.
    City: Danville

    Tips: The ish seem to be keying in on shad and are very at rom gorging or the winter. I'm sure they are eating crawdads too as the water temp is still holding at around 60 but white and shad pattern reaction baits were working well yesterday. During High Tide Look or extended weed lats on rip rap banks in 3-6 t o water. Hope this helps those that are getting out over the Thanksgiving Holiday!

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    Water Temp: 60-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Hook Tourney Sun. with my buddy Troy. It was a great day to be on the water. There was much talk about the og but we stayed West all day and had NO og. I spoke with a ew anglers who stated the og was key to the reaction bite. Started o with topwater, blades and shallow cranks. Picked up a ew dinks ish in the break on Shad Pattern Shallow cranks. Went to lippin jigs and plastics and had a limit in the boat in a couple o hours. I've been using a 1/2 oz jig or the last ew months but a brown 1/4oz seemed to be the ticket over the weekend. As they suspend in the all they sometimes preer the slower decent o the 1/4oz but they weren't hitting it on the all. It seemed that because o the dead calm conditions that they just wanted a little inesse. The jig ish were in 5-7t o water in sparse grass & wood. We also caught ish on plastics tight to tules in around 8t o water. We ended up with 16+ lbs and didn't even come close to getting a check. The surprise o the day was a 9# steelhead on a plastic worm!
    City: Danville

    Tips: I made decision to put the T-mtr down and just ish or 9hrs. The all bite is on and maybe we should o run a little to get some quality ish.

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I ished the Basin Bassmasters TOC on 11-17, launching out o B&W. It was a bizarre day, being that the weather changed about 10 times that day. My partner Gary Hughes and I ran up to Sycamore Slough, where I had gotten on a pretty good bite the week beore. I had been on a pretty good pattern ishing plastics outside the weed lines, but I knew i we didn't get on ish right away that it was going to tough. Sure enough ater the irst hour we only had one 2 1/2 pounder. By 11am we had only hooked into a ew dinks and decided to make a run up into Beaver. Ater 1 hour and only a ew more small ish we ran back to where we started, because I knew there were ish there. Right away I hooked a keeper ishing a lipless crank in the weeds or our 2nd good ish o the day. About an hour later Gary hooks a real nice ish on a lipless and when it peels some drag all I could think was "please don't let it be a striper". Just when I thought that, a big ol' ootball blackie comes rolling on the surace. We netted it and it went 5.46. Right ater that I hooked another nice ish, but it turned out to be about a 4 pound striper. We did get 1 more ish on a plastic to end the day but only had 4 ish. Turned out it was enough and we won with just under 11 pounds.On 11-18 John Kort and I launched out o Paradise and went to a spot where we were killin' them last year at this time. The key is that it's a rip-rap wall with tules, but it doesn't all o into deep water right away. It stays about 5 eet deep 30 eet out or so o the wall beore going into 20 eet o water. This is a perect eeding lat or bass that gives them deep water to run to i they want it. We did get some decent ish there, but the water is not quite clear enough yet or it to be on ire. Another week o cold weather and it should really turn on. We then went to Whites and got on a good mix o bass to 2 pounds and striper to 8 pounds. We also hit Potato and got another 5 stripers and called it a day at 2pm. We ended the day with a dozen bass and 9 striper. Our best 5 bass went around 9 pounds or so.
    City: roseville

    Tips: Remember that water clarity is a must. These ish are starting to eed heavily or the winter and you will get a lot more chances o getting ish i you are ishing clear water. Every hit I got both days o ishing were good solid hits. The plastic ish were practically swallowing the bait beore I could set the hook.

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Hook Tourn with Dave. Caught 12 ish and weight in 6 ish or 12+ lbs. Had a 5 ish in the boat in 25 min ater launching and thought it was going to be a great day.irst 2 big ish came o a 6" CO worm and the rest on Senko in 10-15 t o water. the water was pretty clear where we were, but we were in the og all day.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Water is cooling, so slow it down. Stay out o the og and maybe you can keep up with the BIG BOYS. Better luck next time Jr.

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    Water Temp: 60s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Pre-ished or the Hook tourney on Saturday, never could ind the schooling ish..Tried Senkos, jigs, crankbaits, and spinnerbaits in and around the Break..Not much results, two dinks and one keeper (around 2 pounds)..Tourney time, spent most o the day lipping the tules with Senkos and working the edges with crankbaits and spinnerbaits..not much results (2 keepers or 5.59 pounds-Nat's)..We know the ish are there, but having one hell o a time inding them.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish are still there, we didn't snag them..

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    Water Temp: not available

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched rom Helen and Herman's at sae light and ished tule berms and saddles in cuts, sloughs as well as areas adjacent to main San Joaquin. The wind was howling rom the south and rain was imminent, but this was the weather to get them going. Although the action was sporatic, when the ish went they ate the bottom o the boat. First stop o the day was in Columbia Cut and the terns were diving and the stripers were puddling on shad however we couldn't get anything bigger than 15 inches out o the school. Judging by the some o the boils there were larger ish mixed in with the micros but they wouldn't go. We moved urther into the cut and stopped on the upwind side o a tule berm and "it was on". I missed a ish on the irst cast and Deadstick (Paul)hooked into a iesty 5-6 lb. striper. While I was netting the ish my dangling lure got swatted but no hook-up. A ew more casts and I had one just like Deadstick's. Deadstick picked up one more 5-6 lbr. and we missed a ew others but as quickly as it started, they were gone. We moved urther along the berm into a saddle where we had a nice snap o under-sized stripers and a 3lb blackie which came on an Excaliber spook. We tried other areas in Columbia and didn't ind any takers until we stopped around Tinsley Island. Here we got into hal a dozen short stripers and a pair o blackies, one o which was better than 4lbs. The big blackie o the day came on a loating minnow-type lure and it crushed the bait as soon as it hit the water. We worked to the end o the berm, and again, it was on. We got over 20 stripers on this stop and let only because the sun was gone. Deadstick got the big ish (32inches), but I landed 3 between 5-6 lbs while his big ish had its way. Even as we motored back up-current or another pass (no trolling motor on the rat) Deadstick was catching a mixed bag o shorts and keepers on the troll. The ish ate the bait as soon as we could get them back into the water. All in all a good day on the "Blow-up-Dolly".
    City: Sactown

    Tips: Look or diving birds, jumping ish, or clear water on weedbed lats adjacent to well-mixed water rom main channels. Both snaps came on the down current side o berms. All variations o retrieves worked, that day anyway.

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    Water Temp: 66-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out o Del's at 6am. Headed North. Fished sparse tulies along rock banks where my buddy Feltch picked up 2 on a speed trap. Nothing on the jig, nothing on the senko. Drove around or a while and ended up a little south o Disco where I picked one up on a blade. Lost a decent one at the boat. Other than that it was slow, but you can't complain about the weather!!!
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Use the usual.

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in the south, below Victoria, on avorite spots and new untried areas. The avorites paid o with keepers including a 6. The new spots were so-so but OK or a irst try. The 6 pounder came lippin a Senko in shallow weeds on a rip-rap bank in a main channel. Others came on Senkos and crankbaits. Nothing special except the big one.
    City: Belmont

    Tips: Not sure on a tip, its like summer out there so use your summer stu I guess.

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent 3 days on the water and it was average at best. We were ishing in the New Bass Grand Fish O on Sat and Sun, so we decided to pre-ish on Friday. The irst day we managed to get a limit o bass to 9 pounds or so. It was a beautiul day to be ishing, but we were actally hoping or the cooler weather to roll in and turn on the reaction bite. We got most o our ish on senkos and dark plastics. We also got into some striper action, which was a kick. Our biggest striper went 9 pounds. On the 2nd morning, whch was day one o tourney, we woke up to breezy, cool, cloudy conditions. We knew the reaction bite would be on, but could we ind the quality. We got to our avorite reaction bait spot around 7:40 ( we were the 93rd boat out) and had a limit by 8:45. The bite was on, but our biggest ish was only 2.4 pounds. We probably put 50 ish in the boat by 11am but couldn't upgrade the limit. We just kept thinking that we would have to blast a 3 pounder sooner or later. It didn't happen. 1 1/2 pound ish are a blast to catch, but they won't do much good in a tourney when your ishing against the big boys. We went to some wooded areas to try and get some better plastic ish, but no go. 1st day limit 5 ish or 8 1/2 pounds. Day 2, we arrived to complete opposite conditions. Calm, clear and warmer. Bummer. We didn't have a ish until 10:30 when I managed to get a little weed line pattern in 4 to 6 eet o water and caught 3 keeper plastic ish to 2 pounds in a matter o 20 minutes or so. John ollowed that up with 2 crank ish and we had are limit at 11:30, but it was even smaller than the day beore. We knew we had no chance o climbing in the standings at that point, so we tied on some swim baits in hopes o bagging a trophy and getting in to some big ish money. It worked right away, as we hit an 8,6 and two 5's. The problem was, they were striper. They were thick. We had 6 hook ups in a matter o 20 minutes, but decided we should probably think about ocusing on the tournament. Damn, that striper stu is un though. We didn't upgrade the rest o the aternoon and ended up weighing in 7 1/2 pounds or a 2 day total o 16 pounds.
    City: roseville

    Tips: Was really hoping that the cooler weather would've hit a week earlier. We were really counting on the reaction bite to keep us in the money. It is raining and blowing like a mother today. Perect conditions when the bass are going in to their winter load up pattern. I love the winter, spring and late all bite on the delta. It's that summer thru mid-all bite that gives me it's. Oh well, guess I better just work a little harder during that period.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out o Tracy Oasis Marina, Picked up a 4lb at high tide on a rootbeer senko o rip rap. Partner caught a 3lb o same area. nothing the rest o the day, Fished sunday morning. Caught 4 o rip rap on Grand Canal by 11:00am, using the senkos, Wind was a pretty bad, had tough time ishing . Fish hitting pretty good.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Root beere senkos. High Tide

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out o ladds must have been a tournament cuz it was stacked with bass boats headed south on the main channel lost a phat buzzbait ish irst thing but made up or it later tried the boat docks on the channel but two boats were camping on them so i pitched senkos(watermelon/red-blk) to isolated tules and got nothing but big ish ... a 6 plus two 4rs..two threes and a cople around 2.. all ish were on tules no wood ish tules in 3t with boat depth o about 8 to 12 plus currentall with senkos and blk red lake lipping tubes.. great day on the delta
    City: mantweeca

    Tips: senkos still the strongest pattern or quality ish toss it to the edge o the tules and let it sink

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    Water Temp: mid. 60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished riday and saturday rom 1pm til dark both days.All ish were caught on poppers.Around island in south.Friday best 5 was between 18 to 23 lbs. Saturday 15 to 20 lbs.Both days were good or 32 keeper bass an 6 strippers. All on poppers go igure!
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Fish small popper in shadows, pop once and let set. Pays o with larger bass!

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: took out arend and his 5 and 6 yearold or bluegill ished in bigbrack ishing was slow but the kids got 6 or 7 and ate ahal duzen snacks about 11:am there mother thook them home .And it was our turn. Bassishing was slow only 2 a 3 an 2lb not as good as last week we turn to stripers got some small ish a got a good one on tryed to hard an broke it o
    City: waterord

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    Water Temp: 66-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Big Break about 10 am. Got a ew dink bass and a 2 1/2 on Rat-l-traps early on. Then lipped a 5 on a junbug 7" big dipper down near the reck at the bottom o the break. Got a handull o small stripes on traps in the same area. Started spoon jigging Dutch and got a ew more small stripes 2-3 pounds. Then hit 4 in a row o a rock pile in 14 eet o water all between 6 and 8 1/2. Ran to Sherman and picked up a ew more small stripes on traps. Bite slowed so we started searching or new areas and then it happened. I set down on a tule point with good current movement just because it looked good. My buddy and I got 4 stripes to 8.10 lbs right o the bat. Then we noticed about 25 yards around the point was a massive stripper boil and the birds were dive bombing like crazy. We must have caught over 25 stripes (average 3-6 lbs w/a ew 7's and 8's)on Traps and spooks in less than 30 minutes. The most un time I've have Striper ishin' in a while. Made up or saturday when I went out alone and only boated a couple dink bass all day.
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went striper ishing this morning @ holland cut and sand mound slough . no luck stripers are not in yet . actually i was waiting or tide to ebb . went to my avorite spot caught lots o big ish didnt do anything dierant . slaughterd them all day on the ebb .. biggest 7 lbs . lost some bg ish once again in the moss bedds going to up grade line next week . remember big plastics in the tules , i noticed you got to have combo o rip rap and heavy tules in ront . tules with no rip rap slow bite and smaller ish . so ind tules with rip rap behind them and you will produce big ish been catching over the 5 lb class and bigger gary yamamoto green red lake texas style with glass bead and bullet on top . dont ask me why but it works like nothing ive tried beore . jig and stop let stand then jig and stop . slow retrieve .. good luck hope im some help to someone . Im not like alot o isherman . i like to kiss and tell my secrets or i might learn something in return.. tight line to all see ya"ll on the water
    City: elmira

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: good day most ish 2lb + one 5lb two 4lb we got 12 ish two came on pointer on the weadline when the tide got up gave them junebug sinko uot a bad day on the water
    City: waterord

    Tips: points to the tide

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: was ishing tules across willow berm really tight in pockets troller down on #1 luipping gary yamamoto green with red and silver lake glass bead and 1/8 oz bullet landed some beauties 7 lb and 5 lb 3lb 6 lb at high tide o 5.8 !/2 hour beore top o tide ish only 2 hrs today catch and release what a day .. they were nice ish no scars perect...... so ish tight use a big plastic and heavy line . got to ind where ish are holding . I always have good days like today .. spinners are my avoite but not today.. TRY SOMETHING DIFFERANT big plastic big ish is my matto lost a very big ish between willow berm and the road my guess well over 15 lbs i had no chance hooooked it and it ran under the dock licly split my drag was to loose . i usually keep it tight or 9 lbs or less . this ish was out o control had to be ther to believe it..
    City: Elmira

    Tips: gary yamamoto greeen red lake and silver BIG PLASTIC AND PATIENCE ..........GOING STRIPER FISHING IN THE MORNING....AT SAND MOUND SLOUGH AND HOLLAND CUT MAY BE WINDY BUT HOPE IT WILL SCARE BOAT TRAFFIC AWAY

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I am going down to the San Joaquin near Newman. Any good ishing spots?
    City: Santa Rosa