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Sunday, January 2nd, 2022

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    Water Temp: 45-46

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on the northern delta. Foggy early morning and 30* outside temp. We fished till about 1:30pm without a bite. Started with jigs, texas rigs, bladed baits, lipless cranks and spinnerbaits then to wacky rigs, drop shot, even ned towards the end of day. Visibility was 1 foot at best. Tough winter conditions but did explore some new parts of the delta which is productive. Also on a side note we didn't see any signs of striper anywhere.

    Tips: We beat the bank all day. Wood, rip rap, tules and weeds. Maybe the fish are deeper somewhere.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

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    Report: Sent in from Alan Fong at Fisherman's Warehouse Sacramento
    Went to the Delta yesterday with Denise and Warren to shoot some video on crappie and look what we caught!
    I caught this carp on my crappie rod with 4# test. It ran out over fifty feet line and under a log. As the carp rested, I had Warren snag the line on the other side log and then I cut it and pulled the line back out and tied a uni-knot and continued to fight the fish. After half an hour I got it to the boat and released it back!
    Denise flipped her PB bass yesterday too!
    Only caught 6 crappie so video was a no go!
    Bass - 1 oz Tungsten with a Brush Hog on a 5/0 Gama round bend hook.
    Carp - 1/16 oz jighead with a 3.3 Kietech. LOL
    If you have more questions or want to talk fishing, come on in to Fisherman's Warehouse.
    Alan Fong
    Fisherman's Warehouse Sacramento
    (916) 362-1200

Sunday, October 10th, 2021

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    Report: by Fishermans Warehouse Megastore
    The fall weather is here and the flipping bite is on.
    I am fishing in one to three feet of water. Try flipping in this depth where you find good current.
    TIP: Use a 1 ounce, pegged Tungsten weight and a 5/0 Gmakatsu Wide Gap Hook.
    If you have questions about setting up a flippin' rig, I ma at the Sacramento Fisherman's Warehouse store Friday to Monday.

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021

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    Report: While I was bass fishing yesterday with Charles and Bob I caught a couple nice stripers.

    The stripers are chasing fish in the shallows like in 2 to 4 feet water.

    Stripers are starting to move into the Delta system for the next few months feeding heavily getting ready for the spring spawn.

    If you're going out this week, try topwater River2Sea S-Waver and Megabass Megadog.
    Any more questions, come on in to Fisherman's Warehouse and we will get you taken care of.

    Alan Fong
    Fisherman's Warehouse Sacramento
    (916) 362-1200

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

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    Report: Couple of the bass I caught yesterday fishing with Warren and Sterling.

    It was a very good day fishing for stripers in the morning until 8am then we started catching lots bass on chatterbaits, Senkos and a few punching.

    Sterling was in the back boat behind Warren and I and was using an underspin with a Keitech and was catching some big bass! Water is pretty clear and the underspin was catching fish behind us!

    Alan Fong

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

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    Report: rom Alan Fong at Fisherman's Warehouse Sacramento

    Yesterday I took out Sterling striper and bass fishing.

    He works for Fisherman's Warehouse repairing reels.

    Tomorrow is his last day at work because he is moving back East with his mom.

    I took him to one of my good areas in the Delta and he caught his PB bass and striper. What a happy guy when we were done! As the weather cools the stripers are moving into the Delta for the winter. It will bust wide open here real shortly!

    We caught limits of stripers and over thirty bass releasing lots of bass in the 3-4.5# Warren was also with us but didn't catch any photo class fish lol

    Alan Fong

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

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    Report: by monte300 » Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:15 am

    Hey guys and gals, my brother and I fished the Delta yesterday and I managed to catch this fish cranking. It's not my PB, but it is the biggest fish I've ever caught on a squarebill. Overall the bite was tough. Murphy's law my scales failed to work and I couldn't find anyone with good scales. One guy had a deliar that showed 6 1/2 pounds, but that fish was at least a pound bigger than that. I checked the length and girth online and it says at 22.5" long and 18" in girth the fish should weight about 7.8 pounds, which sounds about right.

    Tips: https://www.westernbass.com/forum/post657244.html#p657241

Monday, June 21st, 2021

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    Report: by HappyDogBassFishing » Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:23 pm

    Here is my latest delta fishing report and video. When the conditions call for a more subtle approach, work the topwater baits with a little more finesse. Also try a swim jig instead of a bladed jig. Here are the highlights and patterns that worked for me last week. Hopefully I will have my new motor by the end of the month.

Sunday, June 13th, 2021

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    Report: Postby HappyDogBassFishing » Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:22 pm

    Had a good bite last week on the bladed jig. Lots of 3 to 4 pound bass, plus one that almost went 8 pounds. I was fishing ledges where the shallow 2-3 foot flat drops off into 8 to 12 feet of water. Top-water action was decent for smaller keeper fish under 3 pounds. Tons of stripers (15 to 19 inch range) and smaller bass were up on the flats. Next week will be a cooker out there...stay hydrated and good luck.

Friday, May 14th, 2021

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    Report: by WB Staff » Fri May 14, 2021 4:20 am

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    Donny in Oakley

    Report: Hit the water in the afternoon for some after work action. The wind was howling out of the west and there was a high incoming tide. Started off with reaction baits in the front of the boat and shaking worms in the back. Noticed the water color was getting dirtier as the water came up and the wind continued to blow. Needed to make a move to where there was less water flow and a more protected area, so went into the Central Delta.

    Stuck to reactions baits, but no go. Picked up a flippin' stick and went to work.Water color wasn't any better and what I thought was protected was blown out.

    Moved again to a south facing bank, again hoping for some wind protection. It was a little better. Flipped D-Bombs and threw a dropshot to get a few around the hydrilla. Nothing too big. They came out of 3ft.

    No matter how many years or decades you've spent on the Delta, if you're not in tune, it can be a new lesson every time... or maybe it's just me.

Sunday, May 9th, 2021

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    Report: From Alan Fong at Fisherman's Warehouse Megastore Sacramento. If you want to talk fishing, you know where to go to find him!...

    Finally got out to the Delta on Thursday with Chris, a buddy of mine for years.

    It was blowing very hard so we stayed in Minor Slough but we caught some nice bass on blades and Senkos.

    Most of the bass are post spawn now so I'm finding them in little more current.

    Finally around 11 am I stuck this seven pounder on a Senko.

    Considering a windy day it was pretty good and lots fun fishing with Chris. Used to fish a lot with him until he moved to Oregon. Chris bought a ghost, 2 HDS 12 lives from FW so I took him out to set them up n teach him how they work.

    For those going out this week the bass in the North Delta are post spawn and are moving into current. When the wind blows throw blades in grass on flats and look for areas that are in 2 to 8 feet of water!

    There are also some bass under the mats so throw frogs and then turn around and punch the mats.

    For those of you that don't know Chris. He used to travel and fish the west coast. He is the 2010 WON Bass U.S. Open AAA chamption.

Saturday, April 10th, 2021

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    Report: From Alan Fong at Fisherman's Warehouse Sacramento

    Fished the north delta yesterday with Ryan Peterson good friend of mine. Started off slow as we only caught a couple in the morning. Water was over 60* but the fish were not cooperating. I decided to start fishing very slowly with a 6" senko
    and started to catch fish. We quit at 1 pm which is early for me with a 18# limit! So it ended up being an ok day! Some of these fish were spawned out!

Friday, February 26th, 2021

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    Report: by StanL » Fri Feb 26, 2021

    For the first time this year, my buddy Earl Dalton and I made our way down to the river to start looking around for some up coming tournaments we will be fishing in.

    We put in at Ladd’s and the first thing we noticed was the tanic water color. The surface temperature was 54° degrees.

    With that being said, we started hitting some spots off the main channel with reaction baits, but after about 2 hours and 4 spots later we still had no bites. We decided to slow way down and Earl finally got a bite on a Yamamoto Senko, pitching it on some scattered tules. After that, we decided to run that pattern for around Mildred and ended up catching 7 fish for the day. They all came from scattered tules on flats.

    I talked to Lorenzo Rossetti that was out with his son, Lucca the same day and he said they caught a few nice fish ones. I hope this helps.

    Good luck fishing
    StanL

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

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    Report: by floater » Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:09 am

    We caught over 20 stripers recently by boat. About 1/3 shakers & the rest keepers. Topwater in the mornin and 15 to 25ft when the sun is overhead. Mainly on north side of False River above Franks, False River near Big Break, Santa Clara shoal, and San Andreas shoal on the SJ River. Except for fishing over the shoals, we were always looking for steep sloping shores (bluff walls) with deep water nearby during the day. Unlike bass fishing, stripers are always on the move. Meaning you gotta keep moving to different locations all day. We probably hit 25 spots besides those above. We got most of our bites wherever there was moving current. Hope that helps.

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

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    Water Temp: Morning 58% Afternoon 60%

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found fish starting to pull off the banks and into deeper water-six to eight feet deep. Jerk baits still working well for lots of small fish. Bigger fish comming on 6in. Sinkos-not great fishing but slow and steady-average 6 hour day has been producing 25 fish. 15 dinks-5 just keepers-5 fish between 2 and 3 lbs. Seeing lots of big fish cruising but they have not been takers for me. P.S. Docks have been productive-Punch bite OK-no top water action for me-good luck.

    Tips: Water clarity is close to 10 feet so make long cast and pay attention to boat position. The river is full of bait both shad and split tail so I'm going to start trying to match the hatch a little more.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

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    Water Temp: 67-68%

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the central Delta. Slow but steady. Short bite windows that are productive between lots of looking. Punching and dock fishing drop shots and wacky sinkos has been my go to. You must wade through small fish but a good supply of 2 to 3 lb. fish will follow.-no toads but I have missed a couple of punch bites that may have tured my day around. No top water bite for me-stayed out till dark and tried to force the top water bite-no go.

    Tips: The fishing has been productive but not on fire-Best period has been incomming high tide-slows for me when tide starts moving out. Bite windows are short so keep grinding and good things will happen

Friday, October 9th, 2020

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    Report: by Fryle » Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:10 pm

    I was out yesterday as well 7-12pm and caught them on walking baits and senkos. Tried chatter, spinner, flipping the grass on low tide, and frogging but nothing on that. Walking bait seemed to be the only thing working, the smaller baits as well as 3lb on the larger strike king mega dawg.

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    Report: by Dan Dunsford » Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:16 am

    We fished the Delta yesterday (10/8). The reaction baits didn't work for us except for a couple small ones. We did our best on 6" senkos. However it was still a tough bite. Water temp was 71 degrees, still warm for a fall bite. Just my two cents.

Saturday, September 26th, 2020

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    Report: Here's a Delta report... after a couple tough weeks on the Motherlode lakes, my son and I decided to take a trip down to the Delta.
    We put in at Paradise point on Friday and noticed the surface temperature was 71° and the water was slightly stained. I started throwing a topwater bait with no luck, but my son, Brian immediately started catching a lot of small fish. He was throwing a Yamamoto Senko on a Frenzy Baits Wack-a-Sack.
    We made our way to the middle Delta and we figured out the bigger fish came on current points with water pushing on them, when I say bigger I mean 2lb + fish, so we decided to fish the River Rat tournament out of B&W on  Saturday.
    On Saturday, we stayed in the middle Delta concentrating on any kind of points that had current pushing on them... weed  points ,tule points, rock points ,etc. We caught fish on all of them. It just had to have moving water on them.
    On Saturday we cought 9 keepers on 5” green pumpkin Senkos with the wack-a-sack and 3 fish pitching a 1/2 oz Bass Union heavy cover flipping Jig with a craw trailer. For both techniques we used Gamma braid with a Gamma fluorocarbon leader.
    We finished in 4th place and I had a great time fishing with my son.
    I hope this helps.
    Good luck fishing.
    Stan L

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

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    Water Temp: *74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Delta has been fair but steady if you'te willing to work. Been fishing the central Delta-worms and punch bite is fair to good on the high out going tide-first 2 hours after ebb high has been my best action-T/rig worms and punching beavers has been the ticket. Top water has been tough with mostly small fish responding. No takers on Chatterbaits or other reaction baits. If you need action take out the spinning rod and tie on a white fluke for lots of dinks.

    Tips: Keep your baits in the shade and be persistent. 6in. kut tail worms in standard colors should do the trick.