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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 63+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Left outta Lazy M EARLY. Very windy. At Mildred by 7:00. Did well with keepers 1.5# - 2.5# on Zoom lizards fishing slow. All fish were at "edges". Didn't matter what edge. Shadow edges, tule edges, grass edges, or depth edges. bite was good. Culling by 9:00 am. Tried frogs, spinners, swim, etc with no success so went back to lizards. Carolina rig staked about 6" up for shallow and drop shot when going deeper. WIND got unmanageable aroung noon.
    City: Hayward

    Tips: Learn to flip and pitch. Have fun.

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Boated 8 best 5 went 12 lb. BF 5.84

    Tips: All came out of 4' to 8' on dark senco's but the BF came on a swimbait

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent only a couple of hours fishing after lunch. Caught 2, one was about 1lb. on a drop shot and the other was about 3lbs. on a tube near Rock Slough.

    Tips: Bass Tip for Vinny: The bass in all the Asian markets across the entire U.S. are typically farm raised. You can tell because they are usually harvested after they reach the most profitable market size. This means that all the fish in the market's fish tanks will always be about the same size, color and weight. So unless you or your "friend" saw a 1 lb. bass together with a 4 pounder, with different colorations and various fishing injuries, don't assume they're illegally caught by a fishermen with a bobber.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: if you guys dont pay attention black bass will be the next thing with no size limit or limit at all we are all in store for a big battle that we will lose if we dont watch out the bobber fishermen are the least of are worries it the politicians we have to fight with

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: First time on the Delta this year. Fished 4 hours hooked 6 landed 3. Lost 2 at the boat being lazy :( Fished Beaver Slough exclusively. It was very windy!!! Hate the wind.
    City: W.Sac

    Tips: Caught fish on Speed Traps, Senkos, and Spinner baits.

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to Franks early and No top water bite in the morning, can't believe it! Caught a 3 lber on a spinner next to tules and a 4 lber flipping plastics. Lost a nice 5 lber came unbuttoned. Then headed out to Whiskey flipped a couple of 2 lbers and missed a monster 7+ lber. That's the second big fish I lost of the day. Really really disappointing. Missed a few other bites. Would have been a nice day if I didn't miss so many bites.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Flip tules. For Vinny: Don't assume all fishermen with a bobber have over limits unless you have seen it. And don't assume the fish from the SF markets in China town or any other place are Delta bass..How can you tell a delta bass from a clear lake bass? Or a Berryessa bass or a Comanche bass or Amador, etc. It could have been farm raised. And Whiskey Slough has DFG there almost daily. I've seen them many times checking licenses and fish. I'm totally against poaching and all for preserving our fishery. The poachers will be caught if not today, another. But don't label certain fishermen if you are just assuming. I didn't want to comment here but I don't agree with labeling certain fishermen or any group publicly.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I agree about reporting folks abusing our fishery. I regularly see guys bait fishing with bobbers on Whiskey Slough who seem to be taking far more than a limit of bass. I called Fish & Game and they don't see to care. I spend a good part of my life on whiskey and have never seen any patrol there checking for license, limits, etc. It sucks seeing people pucking from the Delta what appears to be more than a limit of bass to eat or even worse to sell. I friend recently showed me pictures he took in a market in SF Chinatown of coolers of what appeared to be live Delta bass. It has never been my style before now, but we need to report abuses. If enough of us do, maybe F&G will take action.
    City: Walnut Creek

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a decent day on the local waters. Landed about 15 fish to 4lbs. Deadsticking worms and Spinners in murkier water was the ticket today. Left after seeing houseboaters clearin out the slough with chains in their pontoons :( isnt that illegal??? Left dissapointed, cause its been good for me the past couple outings. Bass are still bedding and some females are still fat.
    City: Walnut Grove

    Tips: Lets try to protect our fisheries, say something and pass it on, even if they pretend not to hear. Speak out loud!!

Friday, April 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 59-64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: just a little windy! caught a few on riprap banks on the turn of high tide with a chatterbait then switched to a dropshot on moss bed edges the rest of the day ,could not buy a topwater strike.. all in all I'd say it's showing signs of life out there.
    City: woodpile

    Tips: I would agree with everyone else about dead sticking your baits.Doesn't appear the want much action in your baits right now.

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    Water Temp: 62ish

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit some 2-3 foot waves as I crossed the main channel with nothing but whitecaps in view. I put my 80#'s of thrust to good use only catching 4 fish up to 3.5#'s. Flipped deep into tule's sweet beavers and tubes. Caught my biggest on a lipless crank craw pattern. I fished anywhere I could get out of the wind and waves 18-20mph winds made for an interesting day.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Don't pee into the wind.

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went East on wednesday.Mildred Area. Weather was windy/rain. found some quiet pockets around Tules. Lots of Big blowups on Topwater. Only stuck two in the 4 lb range. With this warming weather the topwater bite will go crazy. look forward to getting back out next week.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Work your Topwater slow. After letting it sitfor a quick second. give the bait a twitch.this was producing big blow ups.

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 65 - 70 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I luanched my custom Valco "BASSBUSTER!" from Ladd's and noticed many boaters getting oof the water with the approaching storm. I made my run to a protected area at the back of 14 Mile Slough and was nailing bass with white spinnerbaits and 7" power worms. I was catching guarding males up to 3 pounds each. With the wind blowing it was hard to working plastics and jigs slowly. I relied on reactions bites and pitched my worm to protected pockets. I wish I was able to get out earlier in the day.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Approaching storm fronts means the BITE is ON!!!! Stick it out and plan your spots according to wind direction. Also venture out into the windward side that is where I got most of my spinnerbait bites.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: tossing top water baits on in side of weed line payed off for me i was walking the bank from bullfrog up river and did reel good bigest going about 6 to 7 12 fish tottal nice day not a nice walk but caught some fish
    City: elk grove ca

    Tips: red with yellow belly top water baits were the killer

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found water up to 68 degrees. Wow. For the most part water was 65. I was hoping to find some pre-spawn bass. I fished reaction baits mostly in pre-spawn areas. Wind was blowing pretty good so was just about forced to fish reaction baits. I was not able to get a limit. I caught a few decent ones with rest being small. I guess most of the fish jumped up on beds overnight?
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: I'm sure with full moon coming and temps where they are, it is all going to be about bedding fish now. Third year in a row, I had lousy pre-spawn fishing. I don't even remember what normal March/April weather is. And of course, another big storm in the forecast.

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out on the falling tide this morning in Connection with no bites, moved over to Franks where water is gen clear and fished of shore grass clumps and tulies throwing watermelon senco and 520 beaver in cal 420 and 420 in rythem&blues with no bites, moved over to entrance of sandmound, added a frog to what we been throwing with no bites.From there we headed to Middle River behind Mildred and got on some fish. We got about 7 fish, all fish came off 520 beaver in cal 420 and 6" senco in baby bass, biggest went 4lbs.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Fished all day with no bites, dont know if we made the right move or if the tide was right lol.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fish in slough...toss buzz bait, chatterbaits, senko,rattle trap,frog, n punch some matt. Got a blow up on frog n miss, got my tail bitten off on my beaver n got nada. Drop shot n bit was on !!! Caught fishes in 2-5 ft of water. Bass spit out red crawdad. Found most of them in tree lay down n stump. Bite are much noticeable. Bite that i saw my line moves and toss back same spot n got another bite. Bass got some shoulder n be doing the dolphin dance..haha. Pull them out quick b4 the tangle back in them tree branches.
    City: elk grove

    Tips: wish the pro would post here more often , so we can get some idea on pattern n location. I know they read these site. Puff puff give... my angler. Some do..but most don't.

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    Water Temp: 54-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished Franks without much luck,,,several dinks.Saw lots of Beds and saw several people fishing beds,but I didn't see any fish on beds.
    All of my dinks came on drpsht in 4ft. in tule pockets.I know this isn't much but it's all i got
    be safe and good luck
    City: woodpile

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of LazyM 8am and had 16lbs of frog fish by 9. Frog bite died after that. Don't know if it was the wind that picked up, or the morning topwater bite was finished. Either way it was good to see them aggressively eating the white phat frog. The rest of the day was ho-hum.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Bring your grass frog rod. They were 30-40ft back in the thick grass and a chore to get out. Only lost one (the first one) coming off halfway to the boat.

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 53 deg / 59 deg

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W Went out with a good friend Water in the mokullume river was chochlate brown Threw some blades with no success , Senko , and cranks Water was 53 deg I am guessing From snow melt it was still cold. so we decided to go to south delta water was really nice and clear and temp was at 58.9 deg we fish around little mandeville bacon island .Threw swim baits, Senkos,blades ,cranks. Only to boat a 2-lber on senko texas stle . Weather was nice saw lots of birds and a spectacular sunrise. Going to wait a couple of weeks for some nicer weather . got a cold front coming in this week. Tight lines to all cya on the water PLASTICMAN1
    City: Elmira

    Tips: wit for water temps to increase

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Took Friday off from work . B&W at 5:45 am Right out the launching ramp Saw fish boiling from stripers . Chased them around for a hour Threw shad crank baits at them boated 7 small schoolies Was a lot of funEven my wife was hooking up .Until seal showed up around the bridge. Took off from there Was throwing Bill Dance top water pop- r .Had a 7 lber taker me and my wife saw the classic strike was picture perfect. Landed took pic and released caught several 2 and 3 lbers in mokolemme river water was 55 deg .Picked up and went to franks tract. noticed a lot of boats . alot of pressure over ther so decided to hang around to boat 2 more 2lbers and 1, 4lber . Used sweet beavers over at franks tract water there was 59 deg. picked up went to prisoners pt . picked up couple of dinks on senko and crank bait. Most fish were caught on rapala 2" shad rap . Fished Herman and helens ferry throwing shad rap along weed line 20 ft out from shore throwing paraell to bank picked up several more nice fish . picked up went to white slough with no takers . moved up to tower park bridge and picked up a 5 lber around west footing on crank bait. Boated about 20 fish including stripers had a great day Missed a large fish early in the am when I was throwing top water, will go back next weekend off the water at 4:00pm. tried fly rod around areas with no takers. tight lines to all. took lots of picks but for some reasonmy comp wont let me up load them if you want to see pics will send to e mails Tight lines to all PLASTICMAN1
    City: Elmira

    Tips: get out and fish