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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished today with my dad. We started in franks throwing sinkos,craw speed trap and spinner baits and didn't get any bites. Went over to potatoe and fished rip rap and cought a few small fish. Picked up a stripper on a cast to get rid of a loop in my line to the middle of the channel.
    City: Napa

    Tips: Keep fishing..

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around main channel outside Disappointment today. Got out around 9:30 and off about 5. Barely got my limit of 2's & 3's w/ several sub keeper size bass all on lipless cranks. I flipped sweet beavers and large senko's w/no takers. Going out tomorrow and try around the port maybe I could catch a few of those B.A.S.S. fish.
    City: Stockton

Monday, April 5th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: U go tell them Deltaking. Can't believe vinny(ignorance fool) label every fisherman with bobber are proacher or every bank fisherman in this case. They have the right to fish how ever they like, as long as it's in the legal guidelines. Does vinny actually sit there n watch them catch over limits? Just because he can't catch fish, now he gotta blame it on the bank fisherman. Get a life man or go frog hunting..there's plenty of those around, maybe that hobby u can alwyz catch something. I wish this vinny guy stunk every time he goes out fishing
    City: elk grove

    Tips: vinny <<---prejudice

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to Mandyville area day after the storms for couple hours. Didn't expect much. Caught a couple 1-2 pounders next to current on traps. Missed a decent 4+ fish by the boat. No big fish caught. Still slow for me. Water was muddy/stained from storms.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Fish next to current to little ones, :).

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    Water Temp: 55 - 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: waited til after the rain storm so didnt get out until 1. Began throwing wacky senkos and flippin craw dad inmitations in black and red. caught one on wacky senko, one got right off at the boat but saw her nice 3#er. Also missed two flippin i jus couldnt get a good hook set on them bcuz such a soft bite. My dad caught three using a green pumpkin red flake worm. Biggest goin 6# right of the bank probly on a bed but we let her go.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: slow it down tried a little crankin and a chatterbait no reaction. NO WIND TOO!! weird huh

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day today..caught several 2's and 3's flipping sweet beavers and reaction bait's. I usually like the wind but today was a bit more challenging. Otherwise it was a good day not having to work.
    City: Stockton

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 53-61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: bounced around from Franks to Woodward to Mildred / Mandville and it's still fishing tough for me tried a variety of baits.Senko and Jig were our baits but only produced small bucks and not many of those.
    City: woodpile

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Enjoy your reports Russ. However maybe you could consider double-spacing the long reports. Makes them much easier to read. Keep posting............
    City: Stkn

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 56-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday, we launched out of Russo

    Tips: Please visit www.russnyders.com for more fishing reports, videos, and info on Northern California Guide Trips.

    <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

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    Water Temp: 60-61.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: After being at work all night a buddy and I hit the East Delta for a pretty productive day for around 19-20#'s for best 5. I caught my biggest on a chatterbait and the rest were flipped on doublewide sweet beavers brown craw color on the backside's of wind blown points. A productive day catching a total of 15 fish.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Buy the biggest trolling motor you could fit on your boat. I have a 80# on my 18ft tracker and it works wonders for heavy wind and current.

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 63 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ran my custom Valco Bass Boat "BASSBUSTER 1" back behind Garlic Bothers this afternoon (2 - 6 p.m.) for the first time this season. Focusing on the new docks along the Brookside Homes. Tried cranks, spinnerbaits, and jigs with no bites. Switched to 7" Berkley Power Worms and finally got bit. Only 2 bass in about 4 hours of fishing. I was really surprised to see how poor the fishing was when I noticed the full moon.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Keep trying different lures and techniques until Mr. Bass tells you what he/she wants. :-)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished thursday from 1pm-7pm caught 17 bass, biggest went 5 pounds. Best 5 went 19 pounds. Caught all of the fish on cranks, lipless and shallow divers, crawfish pattern. Also caught 11 striper and the biggest was 8 pounds.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Little faster retrieve worked for me, but I also had wind and cloud cover.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the high tide/outgoing tide this afernoon in east delta. Managed a pattern quickly. The low pressure system and wind must have turned them on. Had a really hard bite from one that pulled like a hog and then just sat down into the weeds. I was thinking to myself, this must be another 10 lber. Turns out it was about 4 lbs but went into the weeds and made it felt like a 10 lber.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Cloudy + winds = blades. They just wanted the blades today!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out of Ladds about 8:00am worked first two hours toward downtown hitting points off main channel; not a bite. Decided to work our way toward Mildred by hitting the cuts off main channel. My brother flips a 6" Green Pmkn/Blk Flake senko on the outer weed line and sets the hook; good fish! almost 12#; always great to start the day with a toad. So we continue to flip the weed lines with senkos and do OK. Caught about fifteen total with the best five going about 26 lbs.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Weed lines, slow presentation, dark browns greens.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished five days, 20th to 24th. Franks did OK most of the time, with a limit to 15 lbs. Disapointment was slow, 2 to 3 fish a day, up to 3 lbs. Potato only produced one fish. The best fish came from the main channel, cranks and senkos, w/ a few fish on 7" worms. Generally the fishing is slow, w/ no large fish up yet. The seals look like they are eating well this trip!
    City: Valencia

    Tips: Wait for two weeks and the larger fish should be up by then.

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in the middle of the day so I could fish high tide. Had to work for my fish. Only able to scratch up a limit. 2 caught on spinnerbait, two caught on crank, 1 caught on senko.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: As the sun was up high and not much wind, I probably should have focused more on plastics.

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just wanted to start off by saying that this report page is turing into MYSPACE with all the trash talkin' COME ON GUYS!!! Anyways, fished the north delta where the water was clearer, threw white blades up into the tree's for largies, caught a few small fish up to three pounds. Switched to fishing for linesides when the tide was pushin' caught two fish around 6lbs. on swimbaits around rip-rap.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Try your old faithful delta lures, white blades/w gold colorado, speed traps on rip-rap and flip some beavers if your feelin' frisky!!! Just look at what the elite series was catchin' fish on!!! Fishin' is tough but if your persistent with those baits, you'll boat a few!!!

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished hard all day in Dissapointment. Had few bites ended up with only two a 3 and a 4 pounder on a brown chatterbait. Got them on the back of wind blown points off the edge of tule's. I flipped most of the day tubes and sweet beavers but not a single bite. I tried black and blue brn/blk..NOTHING. I did see a couple males setting up on beds.

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    City: Stockton

    Tips: I would like to think my best tip was to use the heavy wind to your advantage and fish wind blown points but, this did not seem to work yesterday.

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Can anyone tell me how to up load pics on this web site when logged in... thanks Plasticman1
    City: Elmira

    Tips: don't be computer illiterate

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    Water Temp: 57 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well had a good day today haven't been out in a while waiting for weather to warm.Fishing was tough, but was still able to pull out some nice fish 6.3 lber , 5.8 lber , 4.3 lber and a couple 2 plus lbers. Went out of B&W resort did not have to go farto pick these fish up the bigger of the fish were full of eggs they had some fat bellys getting ready to spawn they are staging right now and are moving up found most of these fish close to the bank around 9 ft of water was fishing around broken pile making really long cast try not to spook them. tried punching mats , no luck threw cranks no luck , finally got on a pattern with blades chartreuse with bleeding red terminator with willow blades gold .they were smashing it.I covered alot of water throwing non stop till I got off the water. I had to work for theses fish, so they just didn't jump in my boat. Saw the bass tourney going on at B&W did not see very many limits so fishing is tough need to wait for warmer water.Went down to herman and helens marina and water was really dark brown, where mokolume river was alot more clearer. not much difference in water temp. went and did lunch at TOWER PARK marina. Rosas restaurant had a mini pizza wife had the burger kid had the fish and chips. was really good and prices were cheap.took off and fished the bridge with no takers lots of boats fishing. going to try to post up some pics.Remember catch and release, let them mamas do their thing, so our future fisherman and their children can catch fish on one the this countries best fisherie the Delta . I did throw some large swim baits today with no takers.
    City: Elmira

    Tips: Get out and keep fishing it is going to bust loose soon ,after the spawn they are going to be hungry and gorge themselfs .try differant patterns till you hook up don't get stuck on something your used to using, today for me it was blades next weekend it might change or maybe it wont so dont be afraid to mix it up