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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Made my first trip to the Delta last monday after 6 months of spotted Bass fishing. Was welcomed by 30 knot winds and zero visibility water conditions, and 3 ft. rollers in piper slough. started around Frank's tract and sand mound but absolutely horrible conditions and no bites. Took the beating and ran south. Ended up with about a dozen bites, 8 in the boat, best five went 24 lbs with a couple 5 1/2's and one around 7 lbs. all on jigs. Sound good? they all came off one 200 yard stretch! everywhere else we fished we blanked. 2 passes on that bank two hours apart for all our bites. tough bite!! 3 other boats we talked to blanked.
    City: Hollister

    Tips: we didn't really fish anything but jigs because of the water temp drop the previous day. we were fishing pretty fast, popping the dragging the baits from the bank to about 4 or 5 ft. Solid bites, no doubt about it when you got picked up.

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lets keep it about fishing and reports of your day fishing on the water This reports area is not for arguments or general discussion.. It is for fishing reports. If you would like to have a discussion about something, please use our Fishing Forums. thank you , P.M1
    City: Elmira

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    Water Temp: warming up

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....the bitter man has spoken
    City: sac

    Tips: try to have fun and not get bitter

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The Bass Classics of Santa Clara Valley had there March tournament out of Holland Saturday and it was a tough bite for most. We had 25 guys catch 56 fish for a total of 170 lbs. There were four fish over 22 inches long which is 6.72 lbs in our club(we use the card system for the weigh-in). In first place with 17.90 lbs was Greg Dougald who was fishing the tullee islands and opening in Franks Tract with wacky style worms all day. In second place with 17.62 lbs was J.R. Taylor he caught fish on jigs, cranks and swimbaits. In third was Gordon Rydquist with 17.06 lbs.The first big fish was 6.72 lbs caught by Paul Barry and I Mike Espinola caught the second big fish a 6.72 lber on a crawdad crankbait.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Dirty water today and very little current so the fish were scattered or suspended off the bank. Use bright red or white cranks.

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Tract Marina Saturday morning, and fished all day. Ran to Indian Slough for 1 miss, got 0 in Discovery Bay. Ran to latham slough where there must have been 10 boats.. boated one small one and lost a hog. Total was 1 on a 5" senko, 1 miss on a senko, and a lost hog on a secret bait. Cannot say what it was as we have an upcoming tournament...
    City: Reno, NV

    Tips: Anyone know who the tournament launcing out of Hollands this weekend was? And does anyone know the winning weights? I saw them releasing some good fish at the marina so I was curious. Thanks.

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice day out. Not to many fish but caught a few LM to 2.5# and lost a Haug. caught em on minnows. The ones caught hit pretty good. Just fish and quit complaining. This is what it is now and I have been expressing my concerns by voice and by phone & mail. Welcome to the age of socialism (you all voted for it now shut up and just fish)
    City: san jose

    Tips: These fish are tired of seeing the same old plastics and they are also smart enough to read the sponsers on the sides of your boats. Quit spending thousands of dollars on plastics and try something "live" for a change.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60'

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started in Franks, and only caught one 2.7 on red rattle trap, and lost one on a worm. Went to Mildred, zero, went to Whiskey, zero, then just tried alot of other areas, still zero. Threw jigs, cranks, worms and swim baits. Nothing so went back to Franks at noonish and threw senkos and finally got one 6.10. Barely felt the fish, just heavy weight. same as in am with rattle trap, stop and go retrieve and on the stop, LMB took it, just felt the heavy weight.
    City: South San Francisco

    Tips: No tips as I only got two and lost two. No pattern other than the senkos were dark color.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: What is all the talk about cutting limits on bass in the delta? How can they do that?
    City: El Cerrito

    Tips: I'm confused.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Additional info regarding the (mis)management of the delta

    http://aquafornia.com/archives/category/endangered-species
    City: San Ramon

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: http://cbs5.com/business/bass.fishing.delta.2.960749.html
    City: San Ramon

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Mar 16, 2009 5:18 pm US/Pacific
    Overfishing Likely Under Delta Bass ProposalSTOCKTON (CBS 5) ―
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    numSlides of totalImages Bass fishing and the Delta are synonymous. In a sports industry that has no parallel in America, hundreds of thousands of dollars are won each year in Delta tournaments stocked with anglers wheeling around in specially built boats that can cost $75,000 or more. But pretty soon bass fishermen on the Delta may become an endangered species.

    Bowing to water interests, the state legislature will consider lifting all restrictions on bass fishing-in effect allowing fishermen to take as much catch as they want - possibly decimating the population.
    City: Newark

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: What's up with the government? How could they put a no limit fish on bass? That's insane.
    City: SF

    Tips: Anyways, they ain't biting nothing. I mean nothing. So I decided to fishing with minnows for STRIPERS!!! Caught a 10 lber. and a 8 lber. OTHER than that, no LM bass. Water needs to get clearer. Its too muddy, fish cant see.

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished clear, colder water and caught one striper on a speed trap in open water. No bites in warmer, muddy water.
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: Yesterday was very windy and I got a couple. Today, little wind and tough. Thought it would be good with storm coming in.

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great day on the delta. Caught lots of crank bait fish and a handful of swim bait fish on wind blown rip rap in the south. We had a little over 26 pounds for 5 fish to take the win in our club the Santa Clara Bass Busters tournament.
    City: cupertino

    Tips: Use cranks to find them. Follow up with your favorite swim bait.

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished current slowly with BHS for 2 fish during low tide.
    City: Cameron Park

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Friday 7 AM to 2 PM. Sunny, no wind. Fished Old River and Mildred Island. Caught 1.5 to 2 lb'rs all day. 1 Every 15 minutes. Fish were spread out. Tried everything in the tackle box, NO reaction bite. Only took 6" worms Watermelon or green w/red fleck. Absolutely NO bite, NO movement. Still A GREAT day
    City: Hayward

    Tips: Pull up sloooow and stop if there's ANY resistent set the hook.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Rivers End. No bass bites at all trying Senkos, jigs, rattletraps, Stacey90s, & Nates bait. Switched up to swimbaits and caught 6 stripers and many more near-catches near the surface. Biggest was 32". Watch other boat catch bass from a distance using dropshot in less than 10ft of water.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: If ur after bass, use dropshot.
    If ur after stripers, use white swimbaits.

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my master angler buddy float tubed out of Westgate Park. Nice day with windy,bluebird skies. We started fishing about 10:00 and took about two hours before we nailed our first three fish. Two of them weighed about 2 lbs each and the other was 3. We caaught all 3 in the same place with in 20 minutes. I think the water was starting to warm up. We were using texas rigged plastics. Later, probably around 3:30 my master angler buddy nailed a nice 4 lber on a 5" swimbait.
    City: Galt

    Tips: Fish deeper,outer weedlines. Don't waste your time waking up too early.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for about six hours all over Holland tract then went back to slough in the Marina and caught three only two and half pounds best. Caught 6.6 last weekend. Used white crank baits and Ike tungsten minnows. Fished Super slow. repetitive casts to outside weed line at low tide seemed to be the ticket. Shouldn't be long now...can't wait till water temp is up two more degrees down below.
    City: Newark

    Tips: Slow down is right!

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 1 fish all day. Dark jig. about 4lbs.
    City: Newman

    Tips: wait a few more weeks