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Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 53.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: spent 3 hours down south rippin and crankin. caught 12 bass (5 keepers) rippin flats NEAR current. all in all great morning. off the water by 9:30
    City: san jose

    Tips: rip baits worked extremely slow did the trick.

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7am- 430 pm...started foggy and ended up partly cloudy with very little wind..40-63F

    Water 55 degrees, clear from ladds to Mildred...5-6 ft visability easy.

    fished from tide 0.1- 3- 1.2

    Caught a 20" striper, caught an 18" striper and about 10 , 12" bass.

    Most of the bass were caught on drop shot with a MMIII robo worm.

    and the striper on a 3/4 oz rat-l-trap
    City: Atwater

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on a friendly tournament with DBT (www.deltabasstactics.com). Great group of guys. Look for structures with the warmest water you find in the protected areas.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Progressively work your way down the water column - top water, sub-surface, 3-6' and so on until you find fish.

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished from 8am to3pm.thru senkos on rock banks near franks tract caught 4 bass to 4.lbs also fished potato with lucky craft lv500 in ghost. caught two more 2.5 to 3.lbs ok day fishing tournment this weekend hope to do the same.
    City: sac

    Tips: fish slow rocks seem to be the key

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 57.6-59.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Left Pirates lair to fish the last 2 hours of the outgoing and the first 3 hours of the incoming. Headed to potato slough and thru top water baits up close and tight to cover and tossed swim baits parrelel in between the sumerged grass and the rock levees. caught 3 bass and had a few followers. tough bite for me.
    City: Napa

Friday, November 6th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of "Lazy M" early this morning to see if there was any kind of top water bite. Only 1 fish on a popper around 2lbs. Moved and fished Old River just outside of Widows, caught 3 more bass throwing only a "delta craw" speed trap up shallow ripping through weeds. Got into a school of stripers closer to Rivers End Marina and stuck with that for about an hour largest going 6lbs. All came on Delta Craw speed trap. Fished a drop shot for one more largemouth, all in the southern end of the Delta. Stuck with reaction bait and seemed to pay off. Not an outstanding day but it sure beats going to work.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Fished shallow all day, all fish in about 5ft of water, eratic retrieve with the speed trap worked for both largemouth and stripers. Also along tule edges.

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of B&W, stayed in 25ft of water jiggin a Duh spoon in white. Let the line slack when dropping the spoon. We also used pencel poppers, fish traps and white spinner baits. Ended up with 30 plus stripers and four keepers. Travel around looking for the birds diving for the bait, stay with the birds all over the delta.
    City: Rocklin

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Great afternoon. Went out for Stripers (landed 7, largest going 17 lbs) in Big Break and the swimbait bite was off the hook. Managed 1 large mouth at 6 lbs on Redeye Shad.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Move up really shallow during low light at either sunrise or sunset, fish tulie edges.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Wake up Delta Fisherman: The US Buro of Reclamation is getting ready to put 2 Dams across the Delta at Holland track & Connection Slue. A meeting of all Parties took place in DB and a Q & A sesion lasted 2 hours about the Dams. They admitted the Southern Cal water people contributed $8 Mil for the Dam study which they are calling a tempary study of the Delta Smalt. 3 Years ago they proposed 4 Dams and the CSPA fishing organization stoped them, now is the 2 Gate Dam project, it's all part of the same deal to store water for LA. Get behind your local organizations and contribute before it's to late CSPA , BBAC, www.restorethedelta.org
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: The 2 Gate Dam Project info can be found at www.usbr.gov/mp/

Monday, October 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: White's Slough. Had success with topwater, white buzzbait, spook and a black jitterbug before sunrise (the largest 3#). All the rest (6) where dinks <=2 on T-rigged Baby BrushHogs in green pumpkin.
    City: Monterey

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Acampo Bryan.........fall is in the air my friend and the bass are actively feeding for winter. Punchin mats is probably old news for this time of year. Try reaction baits in shad patterns and make sure to try your favorite topwater as well. Lunker Punkers are catching the bigs ones now. Good luck.
    City: manteca

Friday, October 16th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished south rocks and current. Cranked until the color was coming off my crankbaits located most bass in about 6-8ft eating white speed traps. Really no big fish, but was able to get a limit. That I here is hard to do now? I heard Sunday Stockton Bass was a blast, with alot of boats and good weight. Great job Stockton Bass.
    City: Pleasant Hill

    Tips: Fish Stockton Bass to catch bigger fish I Guess?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 64.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Wow. Color me suprised, the day after big storm and dismal weather forecasts, a quiet, calm muggy day. Fished from 1pm -5 pm...caught five fish, the largest was 2 lb. White buzzbait, and red rattletrap.
    City: Atwater

    Tips: seagulls and terns

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Help!I am haveing trouble getting the size and number of ( "punch" fish} I keep reading about on this site. I pretty well have the mechanics down of getting through the grass to present the bait. And I do catch some fish now and again.My biggest problem is finding a good standard bait to present. I have flipped the #420 sweet beaver until I'm blue in the face. Also chigger craw,cover craw,rage craw, etc. I try to fish as many points as possible,and cover with current. As I said I do catch some but nothing like I see posted on this site. Even though "punching" seems to treat me like a step child I do enjoy doing it. I just wish I could come up with some baits I could get confidence in.Thanks
    City: Acampo

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