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Sunday, October 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 63 deg

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out of rio vista to do some striper fishing so here is my report for you guys doing the striper derby this weekend Went to decker island sacramento side fish for a few hour and the water temp a little warm for fish to move in with the cold front and winter approaching looking good for striper fishing caught 9 stripers today all were shakers with a couple 8 pounders was fishing mudsuckers with no success stripers were all over the fresh shad i only bought 1/2 pnd of shad and ran out. today I tried something differant than the ol fillet shad with the double half hitch on the tail standard stripper rig I tried some thing i learned in mexico that i saw fishing the baja last month. Used a 1/0 gamagatzu and used 3 ft 20lb leader with sliding weight kinda the same rig.but much smaller hook , run the hook right through both eyes and toss behind boat the stripers were all over it compared to the old rig . i lost some fish but caught most of them. fished both stles side by side and the small hook out caught the large hook, fillet of shad. I think you spend some time on the water and have patience you should produce some nice fish. lots of moss in the water keep checking bait frquently and keep fresh bait on its a lot of work keeping moss off the line but worth it .
    City: Elmira

    Tips: fishing should get better with weather coming in and cooling water. If wind is a problem lay up along sandy beach and south of it on the west side good fishing and out of that nasty north wind C YA on the water PLASTICMAN1

Monday, September 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Big Break Marina Saturday morning before the sun came up at 6 am. I was with two other anglers. Both were experienced bass fisherman but neither have targeted striped bass out on the California Delta. Just as the sun was coming up the tide turned and started rising. We exited the marina and immediately started seeing smaller sized stripers busting smelt on the surface. Throwing topwater lures by the boils, we each caught a few 3-7 pounders. Poppers, Vixens, and Lunker Punkers all were working. The tide was moving along pretty well, and so were the fish. We would get a double hook up and next thing you know, the school of fish was 200 yards away. The area we fished had a huge flat with a deeper little ditch running through the middle of it. During the early morning the fish were quite scattered because of the low light conditions. The water was super clear (5-6 ft), the light morning breeze dyed and the sun got higher in the sky, most of the fish pulled out to the deeper ditch. Before leaving that spot at 9am, we were already at 10 stripers and 3 largemouth. Our next stop was Sherman Island. The tide was middle incoming and the water was a little more stained (2-3 ft.). Because of the hot calm conditions, I stayed off the flats, and concentrated on the openings near the main channel. Areas with hard bottom and current were key. We caught another 8 schoolie size stripers on hair jigs and fish trap swimbaits. By noon the tide peaked and it was close to 100 degrees out. The outgoing tide was moving extremely slow, so we decided to switch gears and bring out the flipping rods for largemouth bass. Flipping Brush Hogs, Beavers, and Senkos, we each caught one two pounder flippin tules by Eddo

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Saturday, September 26th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: you must fish the rock walls. i was under the bridge that goes into rio vista and was crankinig and caught 7 in about 25 minutes and missed tons of other ones. 6 were bass and one was a squaw fish. firetiger speed trap
    City: brentwood

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was my first non-salmon fishing trip on the Delta. My friend and I left Ladds at 9am and we fished rip rap, and tules, piers and all manner of cover. most of our luck transpired at the main channel point at ladds with a lipless crankbait quickly netting us 3-4 small stripper. A nice start, but we failed to establish a pattern. we were on the rising tide and left shortly after high tide.
    City: Atwater

    Tips: who me?

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Was out on Saturday with 2 clients and caught about 15 stripers on Pencil poppers in the Big Break and Sherman lake. Started about 6:00am with the outgoing tide and left at Noon when it bottomed out. The biggest was only 4.5 pounds but the action was nonstop for the fist three hours of the tide. We had some nice fish bust on the baits but did not hook up. The wind was putting a small chop on the water which may have lead to fish missing the bait at times. Should be more fish moving into the system every day.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Never stop your topwater if you get a hit. Just keep it going and they will hit it all the way to the boat.

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Brannan Isle from 6:00AM - 1:00PM. Only caught one dink on a craw-colored crankbait in first 10 minutes, used soft plastics rest of the day with no luck, should have used crankbait or spinnerbait. Ended up catching a few small stripers on cut bait, just to feel something on my line...LOL!
    City: Pacifica

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W, headed towards Frank's and ended up fishing a speed trap on the south side of the Tract on some rip-rap and boated 5 or so keeper largies to 2.5lbs. Ran up to sycamore and stuck 10 more on a laminate 6" senko to 3.5lbs.
    City: EG

    Tips: Good day considering I got to fish out of my buddies skeeter(Thanks Jon). Watch out for the boys fishin' the FLW their all over the place!!!!

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Great advice man! Also thanks for the tips on saturday. I just ordered some punch skirts. Can't wait for them to get here. For sure next month if you guys do have a small tournament again give me a call. Thanks for giving my boy and I some advice on Saturday. He ended up catching 2 small bass on the drop shot rig you showed us. Made his day. Thank you Sir!
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Don't be afraid to ask for help even if your out fishing. Anglers are awesome.

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a 11 boat tourny out there. Several guys came in with a 5 limit or less(2 or more). Most fish were produced on senco's . Guys punching mats came in @ 5 fish limits also. But they reported they worked extremly hard for the fish. Saw a lot of bass guys out there too. With the national guard out the pressure is definitley on! Look for mats they are ideal but not over fished. The pressure is on! National guard will be pounding mats so if you could resist these guys got a huge purse on the line, let's leave this to the pro's and figure out something else this coming weekend. Definitly a good weekend just to get out and watch these guys duke it out. Remember guys let's keep our distance. Bub tosh's paycheck skirts with the sweet beaver or any other plastic will work great. Good luck trying to find a Mat not already beaten. I'll focus on stripers this weekend and leave the bass to the pros.
    City: Elk grove

    Tips: Great time to start paying attention to the national hairdos tournament and see what these pro guys are doing. The winner gonna definitly have a trick up his sleeve. Keep your distance if you happen to be out.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launch the boat at 6:15 just before sunrise at Big Break Marina. The tide was going down and we still had a good four hours until it bottomed out. We started on a weedy flat just outside the marina. I was throwing a Lunker Punker and David was using a popper. About 15 minutes into the day, David misses a good sized striper on the popper. Not more than a couple minutes later, I see a guy fly fishing about 100 ft. away from me miss an absolute monster. It looked like someone dropped a VW Bug in the water. David then catches a couple 2lb largemouth on the popper. We then move to the mouth of Little Big Break. I catch a 9lb striper on the Lunker Punker. Just as the tide starts pushing back in at around noon we move to the ship wreck and catch a half dozen schoolie stripers on Rattle Traps. They were all about 18 inches long. By about 12:30 the light breeze we had in the morning shut down, and the surface was now glassy calm. We tried fishing some of the weed beds out in the middle of Big Break, but had no luck. By 2:30 we were in the middle part of the incoming tide and it became quite hot out. We switched gears and decided to pull out the flipping rods and target largemouth bass. Punching Sweet Beavers and Paycheck Jigs, we catch 5 more bass fishing Iron House and Emerson slough
    City: San Bruno

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My first Delta excursion, and I was successful to some extent, so hooray. Followed around my neighbor and his buddy, just getting a feel for the waters.

    Fished mainstem Moke and sloughs, top end of Franks a little bit of Whites and a bit of stuff in between. Lots of rats on spinnerbaits, probly half a dozen keepers, a 3.5 and a couple 2.5+. Keeprs pretty much evenly split between Spinnerbaits, Swim jig and Beaver.

    Hopefully the bite will pick up in a couple weeks if the bass start railing the shad (saw LOTS of those today!)
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Spinnerbait for numbers and the lucky big fish. Plastics bite seems slow, and nothing on the frog.

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: There was a bass tournament at B&W on Sunday n wondering how they do. They were fishing mostly at spot where I normally fish. So I wonder all over mokelumne river n san Juan river caught mostly dinks on spinner, buzzer,crankbait,n rattle trap, n popper . No taker on plastic. Bass tournament people most of been there b4 I did. Saw a lot of kids in back of the boat fishing n it remind me of my old man n the OLD DAYS but we didn't have boat back then. I didn't cut infront of anyone but others did but it's understandable. They had a tournament to win.
    City: elk grove

    Tips: flipping, punching mat, senko, swimbait with no takers. Caught all of my dinks n a few keeper on rock levee. Usually we catches fish around tully but no today.

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W to windy conditions and cloudy skies. Stayed mainly around the Tower Park area for 5 hours. Landed 16 fish to 3.5lbs with our best 5 going for 14lbs. We caught fish on just about every bank we hit. We were on a descent reaction bite, with a little topwater and plastics thrown in as well.
    City: Reno, NV

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED MOSSDALE AT 6:30AM FISHED SOUTH CAUGHT 2 BLACKBASS ON THE DT-10 CRANKBAIT ALONG THE ROCKWALL FIRST 20 MINS. THEN TO MEXICAN SLOUGH LOTS OF BAIT AND CARP JUMPING.MISSED ONE ON A CHARTRUS SPINERBAIT.NOTHING IN THERE.MADE A RUN NORTH TO THE Y , WAS VERRRRY WINDY NO LUCK.CAME HOME AT NOON. WILL TRY AGAIN THIS WEEK
    City: manteca

    Tips: USED SENKOS CRANKBAITS SPINNERBAITS AND TOP WATER FROGGS ONLY LUCK WAS CRANKBAIT

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got out on the water around 9ish this morning and had a great day. In the frist hour boated 5 keepers and it went up from there. Lost count by noon. When I got tried of throwing Sinkos would toss Kelly prop bait. Mostly caught dinks on the Kelly but was fun. Lost the largest largemouth that I had ever hooked around 3:30. Went back an hour later but was not there. Tied did not really matter because I caught fish on the incoming, dead still and out going today.
    Fished the main river San Juan around Disappointment.
    City: dixon

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water @ 7:30 AM. Started punching matts, weeds, hyacinth and pennywart. Buddy and I ended w/ a 2#, 4# and a 9# til 2 PM. Then went out to Franks to do some striper fishing for a few hours. Buddy caught a 8#. Went back to the sloughs and start throwing lunker punker, hooked a 7.3#. Our best four 22 plus lbs. Not a bad day at the office.
    City: SaCToWN

Monday, September 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched from Big Break. Gin clear, nutrient poor water with 5-8 ft. visibility made it an unusually tough day on the water. I spent more time running around in an attempt to find some good stuff, but at the end of the day, I only caught one 16"er flipping tules near deep water with current.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish harder.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Potato Slough starting at 8:00 a.m. Caught 6 bass to 2.5 lbs. using zipper worm and MM-III. All but one caught 2-3 hours after high tide between the rocks and the weed line on rocky banks with scattered tules. Also tried frogs and cranks in various colors but did not get any takers.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the family on a two day RV trip. Stayed at Snug Harbor with a dock just 40 feet away from the RV. The morning bite was better than the evening. I caught fish on a super spook and 1/2 oz jig. When things got slow I tried using a flick shake worm and caught several shaker small mouth bass and one nice keeper small mouth. No blacks bass over 2.5 lbs., but I did miss a huge blow-up on a spook yesterday morning, wish I hooked him. Total bass over two days was 12. Lots of blue gil for the kids and a few carp for a good fight.
    City: Millbrae

    Tips: First time fishing north Delta and it seemed that the fish where relating more to the trees in the water than rocks and weeds.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Potato slough was the plan of attack for my girlfriend and I. So we were on the water at 5:15am throwing frogs and prop baits. A lot of small fish and a few 3lb fish. I Switched to a crawfish pattern speed trap and she tossed a jointed shad pattern rapala and we worked rock levee's and out side weed lines. Hooked up with another five fish in the next 2 hrs. I never put the prop bait away all day I picked that bait up though out the day a caught two more nice fish in the heat of the day around old wood docks. We had a good day together.
    City: Napa