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Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of orwood, fished mildred area both outside and inside. Threw buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, senkos, powerworms texas rigged, drop shot. Not a single bite. I'm still learning the delta despite fishing it for quite a few yrs. If anyone needs a backseater fishing the delta email me. I'll help w/ gas, launch fees. I don't tournament fish so you don't have to worry about me giving away your fishing spots.
    City: clayton

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Well good to hear the other struggling reports. I fished Tuesday and Friday afternoons, and caught one fish each time out (by myself). Fished with my partner today. Threw everything we had at them all day - not one bight. Blanked!!!
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Wished I had some

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out from Ladd's around noon.Fished around mildred Island for about 4 hours.Saw quite a few Bass boats and a hundred sailboats but other than that it was not too crowded.Tryed to locate fish in deep water near flats but had a tough time.Caught one shaker striper and missed a good strike that had to have been a pre-spawn female largemouth.Well since I never saw it I guess it could have been something else.I tryed to get another strike with several follow up baits,but one chance is all I was given.That is not the first time that has happened.Oh well!! It was still nice to get out.Weather was very nice.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: The water is still a little cold but with some steady warm weather they should be coming up.Good time to test out the boat,gear etc.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day. It's been awhile since I've been skunked. My partner and I both ended up with 0 fish. We fished different depths with a variety of baits and only had one tick. Hopefully it will pick up soon.
    City: Union City

    Tips: ?????

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    Water Temp: 50-54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Misery loves company. I too have been in the "Mother of All Slumps". Franks Tract today with not a single bite. Tried jigs, Senkos, spinnerbaits, crankbaits (lipped and lipless) Sweet Beavers and Carolina rigged Margarita Mutilator. Nothing! Totally frustrated. Guess my "Excuse Du Jour" will be the muddy water.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Keep wettin' the lines...

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    Water Temp: 53-55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 1st off thank you Rich for that report.Nice to hear from a pro. I haven't posted in a long while myself. Having a tough time myself. I have 3 fish this year, in 8 trips. Today was a zero but I know they are around based on water temp and the reports. Worked the Texas rig and the jig all day ( 6 hours) couldn't get 1 strike. I have had way better than this by now in earlier years but we know each is different. Don't know what is next but I will continue the quest.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Have zero tips

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54-56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I haven't made a report in about a year...I doing this to help the individual that can't seem to do well at the moment. Im fishing small area's NEAR spawning area (Known) that have deep water nearby. What I recommend is put your head down and flip a jig. Trick is, SLOWDOWN, think your not slowin down enough. Slow some more. Watch youpr boat depth is another key to big fish. I try and keep my boat in 5-6ft of water with a long pitch if necessary. Im using a Bobby D's 1/2oz Black/Blue with a Netbait Baby Bama trailer.

    Area's that Im fishing alot right know is Franks, Washington Cut, Connection, Big Break somewhat and Taylor with some upper parts of piper (deep section). You don't have to run all over hell to catch quality fish. I've been using 3 rods. Jig, swimbait and a Texas Rig. With this you can cover all depths. You may change the above to meet your confidence level, everyone is different in approach.

    In the last 8-10 days there has been movement of big fish looking for a place to spawn. In about 1-2 weeks this place is going to be wide open. At the moment I've put in a 8lb 3oz, a 10.73 and a 9.06 today, all have been verified. Im going for a 50+ limit consisting the best 5 for 09. Counting fish over 7lbs. My Profile will show it and will update has I catch them.

    Good luck and hope this will help someone.
    Rich Thiel
    City: Bethel Island

    Tips: Deep channel's near Spawning flats or area's. Current is another option near flats. Fish slow, with a warm weather coming in the shallow water bite will be wide open. Look for grass in 5-6ft of water and work it with a swimbait or something that you can crawl.

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished inside and outside of Little Mandeville from 8 to 2. Jigging, senkos, & fishtraps. Boat was usually over 5 to 10 ft of water. Conditions were cloudy on day B4 the rains, but only landed 2 bass under 2 lbs. Expecting better days in the next few weeks.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Should have fished a little slower and little deeper. I think the good bass season is about to start.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: lauched out of paradise pointat 6 am i thought i would have to wait to lauch i was wrong there was no one there. fished disapointment slough for an hour and obviously i got disapointed. the water was so polluted (grease and gas stains all over the water) then i moved to white slough the water was still murkey but less polluted. the only fish i saw was from another boater. then we went to mildred island. My buddie and me targeted bass caught a coulple of keeper striper and they made a good meal. Guess you always have to make the best out of the worse. We threw everything at them nothing not even a bite. the only thing that worked was zara spooks and the black dog lunker punker stripers hit them call us lucky i guess.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: prespawn sucks. it was nice to have alot of fishing space in the delta but it sucks. The guys who didnt go out must have known something i didnt. I should have just stayed home with the kids.

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    Water Temp: 51.4 deg

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Left out of B&W resort in early am Took off straight to Venice Island by fourth of July house water was a little better than in the Mokolemme river not as muddy, fished the prisoners point with 2 takers one went 3 and other almost 4 lbs worked really hard to get on pattern. Finally , sweet beaver blk/ red flake . Was throwing senko , blades, crankbaits they did not like anything till i stuck two rattles inside the sweet beaver ,fished Texas style the water was a little warmer in southeast delta , picked up went towards Stockton in ship channel to pick up a few more nothing to bragg about doubled back and went up potatoe slough water was getting muddyier fished tower park bridge hooked up with a schoolie striper on crankbait red and black craw, picked up and finished my day at bouldin Island with no takers water was low and very mudddy fished sweet beaver hard and slow with no takers covering every inch had a good day, fish I caught were really nice lookin with no marks took some pics will post, most fish were found at the toe of levee with rock 10 to 13 ft of water and slight current, bites were very light got to pay attention or you will miss bite I broke one off over by tower park had drag set to tight , for ten pound line ,and I need to re-tie more often, Got some fishing in before it rains cats and dogs. tight lines to all cya on the water
    City: Elmira

    Tips: fish south delta look for warmer water even if it is a couple of degrees, and cleaner water slow it down and try to get pattern down , Use rattles in plastics for noise in darker water some times I double up rattles seems to work, try up towards Stockton.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: great day out on the water. fish are active. went out and through crankbaits and rattle traps and caught four right away. than switched to chatterbaits and caught a few. than cranked and caught a few more. caught 12 total with big fish of 3 pounds. could not find big fish but had an 8 pounder follow red and blak voodoo chatterbait
    City: b town

    Tips: the flipping bite is off and the reaction bite is on. keeep covering water

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: has anyone fished up around east san jaquin river around turning basin and around rough and ready island looking for a report on what water looks like , went to bass pro shop on sunday when i went onver I-5 noticed water was remarkable not as muddy as west delta going tomorrow will give report cya on the water. tight lines
    City: Elmira

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather conditions made for a tough day. We fished the Franks area in exposed water with the wind beating on it, weather stations shows gusts to 25 and I'd believe it, 2-3' rollers all day long in the steady driving rain, body is really sore today. We fished up tight flipping heavier jigs that were green pumpkin in color. one 15" striper early on a red/purple yozuri. The tide finally turned and at 10:45a with no fish in the boat my partner looked back at me and questioned "never give up, right?" me:"right". 2 casts later he hit a 7, he hit the next fish too, was an 8.3 about an hour later and just like that we felt like we were back in it. continued to grind but only managed 2 rats late in the day with 30 minutes to go, we finished with 17 and change. needed that last rat for the win, but very happy with 3rd. Sharing game day info in the hopes that others will get back to this level of sharing here in the reports
    City: Sonora

    Tips: the usual - knowing how the tide affects your spots is important, jigs produce big fish, shallow flats with deeper water nearby, spinnerbaits work in choppy water produced in rain/wind even in the winter.

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Holland Tract at 1:30 and fished vs. watching ABA weighin. Caught 1st fish (small) within 1 hr and 2nd (4.5 lbs)within 2nd hour, both on baby brush hogs tight to cover. Thru light color chatter bait on flats - nothing. Switched to dark and started getting bit. Found fish on flats and in deeper water off weed lines. Finished with 6 fish total, biggest 6.25 lbs. Not bad for a few hours fishing.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Fish seem spread out, but at least their starting to feed.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished saturday for a few hours in the afternoon. Launched into coco, but finally found some good looking water in frank's. For the first couple hours I tried a jig, red craw crank, and a trick worm for only one take. Switched to a war eagle spinner bait and caught a 5 and 3 within 10 minutes. My dad caught 4 on a drop shot. Wind started to pick up, so we decided to head on in.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish are starting to chase.

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    Water Temp: below 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out on saturday.flat calm water, caught the first fish on a crawdad revenge spinnerbait it was about 2.5 pounds. next fish was on a tomato craw 4s strike king crankbait it was about 2 pounds. after the release went down about 20 yards and hooked into about a 8+ pounder and pulled off the hook. switched to a xr50 because of the weeds and instantly got a 6 pounder in a pocket. missed a 4. caught a 2. missed a 5. caught a 2.5. then caught a 7 off the xr50. on a rock bank.

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished north franks with chatterbaits and crankbaits and got nothing. moved to south part of franks tract next to the wall and cought two keepers between 11pm and 12pm dropshotting on points of weed lines.

    Tips: roboworm margarita mutilator. 8 inch leader

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    Water Temp: 50 to 52.7

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My son and I started in White Sl.( 1 tip tap no hookup), moved to sounding board area , nothing. Ran to Franks tract ,son had 2 light hits on swimbait, again 0 hookups . Moved to Middle River ZIP . Last stop of the day fourteen mile sl.one hit on senko no hookup. Not a very good day ,did find where they are not. Next time we will find where they are( I hope). Jack Morris . Old half of team jackbass
    City: Valley Springs

    Tips: Move until you find fish. Don't know what else to say.

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    Water Temp: 50-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 3 LM on jerkbait (hard bait). They were related to the outside weedlines on Franks. 2 stripers in the Old River.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: At least some LM are shallow (5-10 feet). Cover lots of water. Concentrate on current - breaks in levees or berms. Share your findings here.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out this morning threw ,cranks, spinner,baits senko, with no takers water was really muddy worked all really slow and tried to get pattern with no success got out at least to get lines wet and run boat and get ready for spring time No takers today
    City: Elmira

    Tips: get out and make sure outboards are up to snuff and your gear, and get ready for the best time of the year coming up