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Saturday, April 16th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This report is about a week late.
    I launched my custom built 15' Gregor "Bass Assassin" at that free ramp off Diablo near downtown Stockton. I loaded up my gear and my "old lady" in the "Bass Assassin" and headed out. The "old lady" has been on a diet so the "Bass Assassin" was able to maintain it's 25 mph top end speed. I made a long run and there was quite a bit of boat traffic and the "Bass Assassin" took a small wave over the back of the transom when I slowed down to get over a yacht roller. I got the ol' "Bass Assassin" mopped out and proceeded to my first spot. The tide was low and the place was screwed up. Caught one small bass off a senko and missed another off a jig. Got out of there a couple hours later and headed back to the port downtown because the "old lady" wanted to go to the Asparagus Festival. I battled the wind and waves from those big offshore boats and finally made it back in my trusty "Bass Assassin".
    I dropped her off and dropshotted a few more bass downtown. Nothing big but it was some action.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: I think it has been tough out there but some guys are getting them. Hit it as often as possible because its gonna turn on soon.

Friday, April 15th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 56-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This report is a bit tardy but conditions haven't changed too much, so hopefully it still helps. Fished the Delta all day with a bubby on the 10th and 15th. All fish hit on 4" and 5" Senkos in shad and craw colors. No takers on cranks or spinners.

    10th: Launched out of Tower Park and found clear water in Little potato and White's slough, as well as Honker Cut. Caught a 2lb-12oz in Little Potato, a 7lb-1oz and 2lb-4oz in White's, and two 2 pounders in Honker Cut. Fish were in weeds in 2 - 6 feet of clear water a few feet outside of the tullies.

    15th: Launched out of Sugar Barge and went south to Sand Mound slough for 2 fish, and then north to Piper slough for three more - all around 1.5 to 2.5 lbs - and all in 2 to 10 feet of water tight to cover. We found a number of males guarding beds around Frank’s Tract that weren’t interested in any lures.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I’m doing better spending lots of time in areas where I find clear water, rather than spending that time searching out more clear areas.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 9 a.m. and was off the water by 12 noon to get some sleep for work tonight.

    With just a 3 hour window I headed for 14 Mile Slough. 6 bass today (all guarding males up to 2 lbs.) using crawdad speed traps and white spinnerbaits along the riprap. Inside LVW Marina I used a carolina rig with Zoom trick worms.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Look for the warmer water, main channel was 57. LVW was 60 by 11a.m. I feel like I missed a good afternoon bite today as the water temp was warming up.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The water temps are in the 60's and we are coming off of the big cold front. I went into the day thinking it was going to be a grind, it wasn't. We caught over 25 fish today up to 6 lbs. Bed fish, reaction fish, finesse fish you name it we did it. I even pulled out a top water frog and got 2 nice keepers, go figure.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Cover water! watch videos on www.fishdelta.com

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: It was pretty tough on me today. I haven't fished the delta in probably a year but I heard it was "wide open" so I thought I would give it a shot. Didn't get on the water until 10:30. I launched out of Paradise Point and fiddled around in that area for a couple hours for nothing. I got out of that area and ended up in a wide open area off the main Stockton deep water channel. I spent 3-4 hours in that area and ended up catching 5 bass off a 6" weedless swimbait. They were all fat keepers up to 5 1/2 lbs. They smacked it hard but it took a solid 100 casts to catch one fish. I didn't see any bed fish where I fished but i'm sure their out there.
    Before I got there I was thinking a 20+ bass day would be easy but as usual I picked the wrong day to hit it.
    City: Modesto

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    Water Temp: 57 - 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of ladds this A.M. got kind of a late start but ran to victoria where my bro stuck a keeper in the 1st 5 min. thought for sure we were on to something. only hit one more in the next 45 min. fished around victoria and woodward most of the day but pretty much got skunked. bro lost 2.
    moved over to union point and nuthin. ran to bullfrog on the way home and stopped at the train tracks where i hit a 2.8 for the final fish of the day. fish are not active, but the ones we landed had fat bellies.
    City: modesto

    Tips: none to offer.

Friday, April 8th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in South, Flipped S-20's and crancked red.
    Stained water had shallower fish 0-3 ft. clearer water fish were in 3-8 ft.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: red speedtrap was in their mouth sideways. flipped with a light weight and was getting better fish on the fall.

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 57-63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Rolfy and I fished South Delta and the water is still muddy,not as bad as last week but still muddy.
    We got lucky on wacky senkos and flippin.As reported in Earlier Reports we found them set up on tule points near deeper water.As I've said earlier...if we can catch'em anyone can
    City: Woodpile

    Tips: Like he said....Never give UP !

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    Water Temp: 56-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Ladd's, got on the water about 7:30. Fishes Disappointment Slough most of the day and Turner Cut, caught 5 (all in the 2-3 pound range) and mised a few, nothing to brag about, wind was whippin' and spent too much time fighting with that. was blanked in the early morning throwing white spinnerbaits, pitched weightless Senkos(watermelon/red flake) into tules for all 5 fish. VERY soft bite. fish will just pick it up & cruise with it, doesn't seem like they are chasing anything right now. I keep waiting for the bite to turn on...but it still ain't there yet, should be any day now.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: fish slow & tight to cover. charge your batteries good, as you'll be on the TM all day fighting the wind.

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 59.2 - 63.6

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the FAB-4 Invitational Derby on Saturday launching out of Sugar Barge marina. My partner, Hook 'em Hard Frank, and I headed South into Sandmound slough and Taylor slough to get out of the wind. This proved to be a good wind break for us and produced the clearest and warmest water. We found fish scattered along the outside of the weed bed, suspended at 5-12 feet deep in 15 feet of water. Fish were sluggish and bite was very very soft. In most cases, didn't know they were even on the hook. Weight of our best 5 was well under 15 lbs. First place went to Team Fremont, Karl T. Keeper. and Tommy Tight Loop, with their winning fish coming on the final cast of the day.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish very slow, letting bait sit motionless on the bottom for first 2-5 seconds. Senkos, split-shot worms and Carolina-rigged plastics produced the best results. Best bait was motor-oil worm with chartruse tail. Use straight tail, not curly.

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    Water Temp: 58-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got out to the water about 7ish. fished on the east delta. at spud early morning, nada! had one hit off a brn/red jig with bloody red beaver,lost it hook didnt set. might be a small one who knows!! went to around empire, skunked!! decided to go try out this slough we fished last weekend because the water was really clear, and got good actions!!!fished there was already spawning and really active! saw an 8+ momma, couldnt get her to commit to bite..she was hiding and wouldnt come out from weeds. was alot of weeds...caught about 23# the whole day...average fish was mostly 4#....was out there for 12 hrs..
    City: stockton,ca

    Tips: caught most of the fish on points and tulles...mostly points is the key!! all fishes caught on topwater, traps, blades, and the number one senko!!!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Looking for a trolling motor repair shop in the area. Please post if you know of one. Thanks
    City: Bay Area

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    Water Temp: 54-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A windy start to the day and I was fired up hopin for a good reaction bite (finally)Stuck a 6 on a 5/8 oz blade runner spinner bait and the heart was pumpin! Caught two 3's in the next 5 casts and that bite bite died,Bucked the wind on the windy south side of the tract for the next 3 hours and deciced to put the blades down.I started flippin the black and red beaver and sure enough the flip bite was back,after the last two days of the fish being suspended on the surface they finally moved back to the bottom.Managed to salvage 20lbs +or- for the day.

    Tips: Although short lived the reaction bite died for me early but these fish are still sluggish and tight to cover but reacting to the heavier weight on the flip if they dont hit it on the fall let it sit for 5 seconds and pop it 6 inches if that dont work make another flip.

Friday, April 1st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Yea. 70 degrees. Fish south end today. Out of Lazy M @ 7:00. Hit Widow Island. Water was 58 deg. Partner caught a 3.4 right off with a green weenie. Next 1.5 hrs was slow. Tried Shad Rap, Green Weenie, Watermelon weenie, white Spinnerbait, bl/b jig. Nothing to write home about. Left for Mildred Island south end. Started catching dinks (2 lb or less) on the green weenies. Dead stick for 0 seconds with SOFT bite. Went back to Italian slough where it was 70 degrees in the back. water was chocolate. Finished the day with 4 more dinks in the last 15 minutes. Off the water by 2:30.

    Tips: I did 2 days in a row in this sun and I'm fried. I don't know how the pro's do it in that Florida heat. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm almost always gonna report fish caught on green weenies.

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 56-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Been years but I decided to leave the south Delta for action on the east side. Got to Ladds @6:00 I was the first boat there. Before I could get into the water there were 5 boats that beat me into the water. First stop Turner cut. 5 minutes I caught a 2.3. No action for the next 1.5 hrs. Left for Kings Island (near the Marina) Nabbed a 5.3 Slow rolling a white spinnerbait near the rip rap. Finished the day at about 1:00 pm within sight of the Marina with 16 lbs. Nothing under 2# All but the 5.3 with a green weenie fishing the shade side of the vegetation at about 3'- 6' of water.

    Tips: The water was like chocolate. Don't expect too much action, just boat the ones that hit you. I only had 8 bites all day but able to boat 5.

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: well today started with a bang...caught a 4lber on a swimmer first thing and Im thinkin Finally...then two hours without a bite so I go back to flippin the brush hog and nothing,a slight breeze rippled the water the tide dropped out so I pick up a buzzbait and 20 minutes later the big girl eats! pushing 10!then 5 hours without a bite and I dont know what to think so I start chuckin a senko andsomebody flicked the switch! the bucks have moved up nothing over 3 though.Fished till dark and picked up about 10 fish in the evening on a spook.

    Tips: JUNK fishing today no solid pattern to speak of outgoing tide was better both of em 13 hour day today but most bites on the green pumpkin senko.

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    Water Temp: 57-64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Muddy-Murky-Stained Nice 5 1/2 this afternoon and not much else to speak of. Don't think they've moved up yet should be soon though. fished middle river

    Tips: darker colors needed for them to see it. Motor oil/red senko a good choice right now.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 56-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished south Delta...Zip Nadda Blanked.
    Water was very muddy...maybe 3" max clarity
    Nice day though
    City: Woodpile

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well the tough bite continues.... Flipped a giant first thing in the morning only to have her break me off rite at the boat.....No bites for the next four hours then a five and a 3 and thats it.Franks tract north end today,less wind warmer water and did notice a few fish here and there on the surface sunnin in protected pockets.

    Tips: Same rig played with the colors a bit but went back to the black and red and got all of my bites,tried fishing inside away from current and nothing as soon as I went back out and started fishing 6' to 8' near current got bites and quality fish. tight lines.

Monday, March 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Franks all day,With high pressure building the bite has toughened up tremendously.Flipped all day and managed five bites for about 17+0r- with a 7lb kicker all coming on black and red brush hog. The fish seemed to be near current sweeping through the tract and buried up, all my bites were back 2ft or further in the tules.

    Tips: After you make your flip deadstick the bait for about 10 seconds 3 of the 5 bites came on the pause but a heavier weight for a fast sink rate to get their attention because they definatly were not in a positive feeding mood,two hrs without a bite then switched to the heavier weight and it made a difference.