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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from sugar barge, worked around franks tract. Started flipping jig n pig, had one taker. Switched to wacky rig in grn /red flake and hooked into a pig! Up tight the the tulies during high tide. Was between 6-9 pounds but she broke my 12lb flouro at the knot! Would have been my PB . After tide changed the bite really died. Couple dinks here and there but nothing substantial
    City: livermore

    Tips: Wear sunscreen

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    Water Temp: 72 +/-

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched the Nitro from Whisky Slough @4:00m(low tide)
    Headed to my spot. First fish went 2 plus pounds on a speedtrap, nothing for the next hour. Wind was kicking pretty good. About 7pm the bite seemed to get better. Caught a bunch of smaller fish again on speed traps. Switched up to double willow blades and nothing, headed to the launch ramp and the bite was on. My wife boated 5 on our way in( 2+ lbs) and I hooked arguably the strongest 7 pounder I have ever had the pleasure of catching. Absolutely inhaled the speed trap..
    As we waited for all the Ski Boats to load up it was almost dark the top water action looked promising. Threw and XPS poper, several blowups 1 hook up...
    City: Ripon

    Tips: Speed traps..slowly becoming my fav! All our fish came from Speed traps..3 trips in a row.
    Back at it friday eve and sunday afternoon
    late.
    The incoming tide seems to work for us..

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    Water Temp: 65-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched New Hope and made our way to our usual Mokulemne tule strips, fully expecting a good reaction bite. Zip except a barely keeper my buddy hit on a craw/chartreuse belly rattletrap. So changed to plastics and brother hit a 1.5lber on junebug senko. I missed 3 hits on a watermelon/red bass patrol jig...I think I was waiting too long to set the hook. Nothing for the remainder of our time on that strip and on two other favs. Moved to White Slough and worked the shaded edges of laydown tules...picked up a 3.5lber on black/red flk senko...this time as soon as I got the familir "tick tick", I hit it hard for that first 3lber. Bro and another buddy picked up a couple more dinks. Then moved to our frog island just north of Sycamore...worked the tules/laydown tule edges and picked up another 3lb-12 and barely 2lber. Called it a day at 4pm. For the guy in the older Ranger fishing with his wife/gf, I tried to wave and say thank you for skirting around us as we were drifting and working the tules but you didn't see me. I was in the deepv Tracker with my bro and buddy. I was gonna do the same thing but you beat me to it and I didn't want you to think we were bullin' our way through. THANX!
    City: folsom

    Tips: Have none. Coudn't figure it out today. But with the heat and the water so stained, I stuck with black/red flk or black/blue flk on a flick shake 1/16 oz jig hook. I'd throw to edge of shady laydown tule mats and then just start shaking....hits were just a couple light tic-tics and I'd set immediately. Both 3lber hooksets were just inside the upper lip. Guesstimate on the water depth was probably 4-8feet.

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

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    Water Temp: Upper 60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Whisky and Mildred Island an hour into outgoing tide in am. Slow start with senkos, differnt cranks, and then I switched to a Bomber Crank in Apple Red Crawdad and it was ON! Not many biggies, mostly dinks and a bunch in the 1.5-2.5 lb range and a couple solid 3's. Wasn't getting much off the tules, but when I started working the rip-rap it was on! Fish were in about 5-7 ft of water and they were hitting about 5-10 ft off the shoreline.

    First cast with the bomber - fish on! Second cast over the same area - fish on! I worked the same area for 3 passes and pulled 8 fish in 20 minutes. Maybe 20 casts in all... Moved on as it started to slow - threw the same bomber and seemed to connect only off the rip-rap or on rip-rap and tule edges. Tide dropped to much to crank so I switched to a Sweet Beaver in California 4:20 and pitched to tule pockets. I was getting better fish with this - about 4 more over the next 2 hours then called it quits.
    City: Sunnyvale

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started in Whites got one 4lber and a 2lber on the tule islands, moved to Mildred got a some small ones, seen some giants patroling a small area so we pulled off the area anf fished it back and fourth but couldnt get em to go, left there hit an oxbow off thw main channel and got some top water fish best going 5lbs.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Bite seemed to be tough today, we spent too much time on that group of big fish we seen. Was throwing sencos and jigs, low tide throwing frogs and buzzbait, biggest fish came off the frog, smallest fish off the buzzbait.

Friday, April 20th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 64 - 70 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today at 2:30 p.m.and was off the water by 7:30 p.m. Takes me about an hour to run out to King Island and White Slough with my 15 hp 4-stroke Mecury so with just 3 hours of fishing I managed to catch 4 bass starting at the marina first and fishing my way around the island. My first bass about 2 lbs was cuaght punchin(black red flake strike king flippen tube) some laydown tule slop next to a dock. The second bass also around 2 lbs was cuaght on my strike king bitzy tube (chartruse/pepper flake) in shady areas of the docks. My third bass was cuaght carolina rigging a tube down to 12 feet along a rocky point in White Slough. My last bass, a 3 pounder, was cuaght during the incoming tide back in white slough casting my weightless tube(white/pepper flake with tail spiked in chartruse dye)to isolated tule clumps working it like a soft jerk bait and letting it sink once in a while. Over all with just 3 hours of fishing I'd say the bite was tough today.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: High blue skies fish heavy cover, shaded areas, or down deep. Challenge your self and learn to be versitle. I think for my next couple trips out I do this tubes-only challeng again, it was fun.

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I haven't posted a report in quite some time, but today was too good not to share. The wind blew and blew hard all day, but the fish rewarded us for sticking out a testing day on the river. My dad and I started out fishing Whiskey and immediately put a 4 and a couple 1-2lb fish in the boat. Then at about 7am after about 20 minutes worth of fishing we got the first big bite of the day, a nice 8+lb fish in the boat. So we continued to fish Whiskey and work our way out toward Empire cut. We got about five more 2-3lb fish in the next hour before getting our next big bite of the day. This fish went 9.75lbs! We cont to fish Whiskey for the next hour, but the bite slowed considerably, only boating two more two pound fish. So we made the short run to Mildred to try to manage the gale force winds. Got into Mildred and first cast got a three pound fish. Two casts later landed a nice 9lb fish. We were only able to stand fishing in there for another twenty minutes or so due to the winds, and we only got one more two pound fish. We decided to head back into Whiskey and run the water we had had success on earlier...good choice! We fished for about ten minutes before getting our next big fish, this time it was a true Delta GIANT!! This fish tipped our scale at 13.5lbs. After running all of the same water we had run earlier we managed a few more 2-3lb fish and one that went just over 5lbs. This was hands down the best day of fishing that I have ever had in my life. I have managed to put together a couple 30+lb bags in the past, but they have been few and far between. So to have a day like this was truly a blessing! And to get to share it with my dad is the icing on the cake!
    City: Turlock

    Tips: We were able to catch 2-4lb fish all day on Spro Little John cranks in a couple dif colors. The 8lb fish and the 9.75 both came flipping Yum Money Craws. And the rest of the fish over 5lbs all came on blades today. The wind really got them keyed up on the blade bite today. So for as tough as it may be to get our 17' Crestliner to stay positioned in the wind, I will never complain about the wind again!

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: @ WESLEY, I wasnt really talking about you, or delta fishing, ive just been reading tons of reports that seem suspect.I probably should have posted on another body of water. I agree with you though, bigger senkos and bigger plastics do generally catch larger fish, not always but mostly. FYI, There are hogs on beds right now in Potatoe Slough!!
    City: VACAVILLE

Monday, April 16th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 58 - 62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today about 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 2:30 p.m. I concentrated fish around TikiLagoon area today. Surprising this morning during the bottomed out low tide I was not able to spot a spawning bass or active spawn beds. It was a finesse bite to start today casting from shallow bank side to deep torwards the boat docks using 5",6", and 7" straight tail power worms on a mojo shot rig and spinning rod. Also used 6" zoom lizards.

    When the tide finally started to change and was incoming around 1 p.m. I started working tules with a spinnerbait on my way back to the main channel. 9 bass today from 1.5 to 4.5 pounds
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Sunny blue bird shies fish heavy cover, shaded areas, or fish deeper. Wish I tried a carolina rig along some drop offs I was scanning.

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 65-66

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Sunday afternoon(2:15ish) Launched the Nitro from Whisky Slough. Headed to my spot..found a Sea Lion there having a field day with the buffet offered on the incoming tide..Began with a double willow 1/2 spinner in white..nada!..went to my speedtrap in all white...nada..picked up the Jig Rod black and Blue flipped the tully's...nada..senko..nada went to a chartreuse and green speed trap and hooked up 13...boated 9. largest went 4.5 lbs...At one point (high tide)...3 casts 3 fish..off the water by 6:30..back at it sunday!
    City: Ripon

    Tips: Junk fish..til you trigger them to bite.Ive never thrown the color of speed trap I threw sunday before that day..I worked for me estimated bag for 1/2 day fishing about 20-21 lbs..

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: To Pfalk..

    Because it's true? I've only been fishing the delta 2 years and the number of 5+lb bass is astonishing and frequent.

    If you're not catching bigger fish, try using bigger baits. Throw a 6-7" senko, punch/flip a doublewide beaver, and use 5"+ swimbaits.
    City: Pleasant Hill

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Why is it that in dam near every report on here someone is claiming to catch a 6lb plus bass,??? even when they are fishing berryessa or folsom, ive been fishing for 15 years and find it very hard to believe that guys are constantly catching that size of fish everytime out, especially on spot and smallie lakes....
    City: VACAVILLE

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Saw lots of fish cruising the shallows at Mildred but couldnt get one to bite. Left Mildred and blind casting senkos for a decent bag around 20 , biggest was around 6. Also tried punching but only scared some big mommas under mats and no bites. Senkos next to mats worked.
    City: Pleasant Hill

    Tips: Senko

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Senko's and Spinnerbaits Purple and White. Senko's on the island points ( tip of the tule's) and spinnerbaits in the sparse tulle's. 10 fish from 1 -3.5#'s
    City: Sacto

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: There are times when losers get on this site to just stir up the pot, why??????? Because mom and dad purchased a computer for them!
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Please do not take these guys seriously, they have NO IDEA how, where, what to catch in the Delta...let alone bass on beds.

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched the custom built 29 foot Metal Flake All Star Ranger out of Big Break this morning looking for bed fish. Found beds everywhere near the tules, and couldn't get them to bite for the life of me...so I busted out the custom built 1 ounce punch weight with a 5/0 treble hook, and snagged away. If you get em in the mouth, it's legal right? Anyway, got a 4 pounder first, then got one about 9 and four more that were about 3-5 lbs. Had the family over for dinner, and had more bass filets than we could handle, so the raccoons had a nice dinner, also. I love the delta!
    City: Delta

    Tips: Beds beds beds, makes it easy to catch dinner!!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hate to be an alarmist but the State of California has plans to tag bass in order to find hot spots, then use nets to kill them. It's all part of the B.D.C.P.

    http://caldelta.org
    City: Martinez

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished down south again today,weather held pretty good rained a lil here and there.We were throwing 6" wacky rigged sencos.Brn jigs,cranks and spinnerbait. All our fish came off the senco we caught 18 fish best five went 15lbs, couldnt find that kicker tp put us over the 20 mark.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: The better fish came off a wall where we were sitting in 18ft of water making long pitches to the rock back with not much grass on it

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at b&w and worked the tule strips with spinnerbaits, senkos, and cranks...3 1-lbers on the speedtrap in red craw and then switched to sexy shad kvd 1.5... 2 more 2lbers. worked the rock wall with senkos and picked up 4 more 1-2 lbers on black/blue flk and oxblood. wind was ugly and hard to keep the boat long enough to work an area. by the time the fish was boated, the boat was 20 yds from the hookup.

    riverats: post a fishing report and keep your negative comments off this report page.
    City: sac

    Tips: work an area 2-3 times and you'll be surprised the fish that hit on 2nd or 3rd pass.
    change up often on those passes.
    please just post reports, not forum trash talk.

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

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    Water Temp: about 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Finally got a day off of baseball to take out the Ranger and we managed to do alright. The day started of slow with a few small crankbait fish. My dad dumped a 4 at the boat to start the day, not good. Got a few reaction bites on a craw pattern LC. Moved to another slough and stared flippin tight to tules and the bite there was hot. I got a a couple 4's and about a 6 doing that and my dad got a few 2s and a 4.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Fish wind blown rip rap with tules without weeds.