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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 40's I think

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Managed to find Raley's open at 7:30 with a full book of fishing licenses. Thank you Raley's.

    Fished all over today... from Mildred dodging the shotgun blasts all the way back inside of Franks. Caught two by Mildred with two other misses and one in Franks. All stripers just keeper size. Is it me or is the striper population diminishing dramatically? Shims jigs and rattle traps were the ticket today.

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished franks tract today only caught 1 fish and it was a nice one. the rip bait/reaction bite is all i can get going lately. no takers on the jig or drop shot. is anybody catching jig fish? if so how? white jigs (shad patern) or standard brown or black?
    City: bethel isl

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Paradise. Partly cloudy with slight breeze. Fished outside weedlines in 10 feet of water with a Lucky Craft suspending Pointer all day. Caught clone 1 and 3/4 lb bass with the bait just suspending there on the weedline. You just see the line swim away during the pause... Water cold and clear, even after the recent rains.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Bites are few are far between. Sharpen those hooks! All fish were barely hooked, didn't need the pliers at all!

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Mr Tkboogie thank you for answering my question. I was curious about the area you were fishing. Thank you for the tips! Now if I only knew where I should concentrate on catching stripers OVER 10 lbs. I've been catching lots of 18 to 30 in. but nothing over. I guess I should throw bigger lures. I've been fishing the flats like many others and caught two LMB that were about 9 lbs. and the other 10 lbs. by accident in dutch slough while throwing a swimbait! That really made my day! I bought a couple of super magnum 9in. zara spooks. A black zara and a trout pattern spook. I Guess I will be trying those as well as a MS SLAMMER. I just wish I knew where and what depth I should throw them.
    City: san mateo

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: on the water about 8 a.m., cold and overcast start, 3rd or fourth cast HUGE blow up on a vixen off a ledge north east of franks on a tule island, not sure if LM or striper, it did'nt return. resorted to drop shot @ old river for a limit of dinks. I took my 6 yr old son, we had a blast! Nothing on a shad crank, had a wack on a DANDY BAITS green pumpkin (BUD) jig with paca craw trailer. Other than that, pretty tough.

    Tips: post front conditions made it tough, don't rule out topwater....yet. dead stick 6" worms checking line often.

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello mr. tkboodie, where did you catch the striped bass? was it in the franks tracks hrs. of 4 to 5pm? If so which part of franks track, east, west, north or south? I've been very busy and I would to catch a bunch of those fiesty critters. I was told by friends that stripers like to hang out in flats. I really would appreciate if you can answer my question. I'm planning to go striper fishing December 15th and would love to run into a school of them.
    City: San Mateo

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Very slow day fishing, but ran into a flurry of stripers during from 4 to 5 pm. Caught 3 LMB, biggest went 2lbs. 1 steel head...YEAH thats right, a steel head in the delta, out of franks....one of the weirdest experiences of my life. Used an LC bevy shad, all day, and when this steel head hit, it was a bullet. She came charging towards the boat, and my 6:1 shimano couldnt reel the line fast enough, so the fight was not hard initially. The fish did do 3 jumps, which was a pretty sight to see. Luck for me, the fish wanted the bevy shad so bad, that all 3 hooks of the treble closed its mouth shut....so this fish was not getting away. The steel head was 15" inches long, probably about 2 lbs. Made the whole day worth while!! Ended the day with 5 stripers, 4 keepers.
    City: el sobrante

    Tips: All fish caught on suspending jerk baits. All fish hit on the pause. locate the bait fish, and you'll find the fish eating them.

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished "The Hook" tournament. The fog was not bad. The bite was tough. We caught one keeper and lost a nice fish at the boat. I think the winning weight was 5 fish for 32 lbs. We slow rolled a 3/4 oz. spinnerbait for both fish. We threw Senkos, jigs, split-shot, and C-rig...Nothing.

    Tips: No tips. The water is clear in the central part of the Delta near Mildred.

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 53.9-54.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about six hours today with lots of small fish, a pair of limits and a few small stripers. Fished central delta, water was very clean.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Tough bite, water starting to get cold.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did well out there tonight. RatLTraps all night. 9lb Strip, and seven Largies big went 5.11lb. Went home around 1am because of the sea lion. He was out there raising hell scarin` all the fish. Next time I'm going to bring me some fire crackers for his ass.

    Tips: Burn the hell out of the Traps, caught a boat load of schoolies on a slack tide. Low tide= LM in around 8-18 feet. Go in a different direction from if you see that lion out there because he will mess up things for you for hours.

Friday, November 28th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fog, fog and more fog. Launched out of B & W into the peasoup . Visability was about 20ft until around noon so stayed around there. Jim was right on the one fish winning out club outing, except it was 15 inches and 1.92 lbs. My partner Mike M. cought it on a small jointed craw crankbait around 7am. Had a couple of bites after that but missed them except for 1 maybe 5 inch LM on a wee-wart. bait was almost bigger then this little bugger that thought he was king of the delta. Still can't believe we won the outing as it was the only fish weighted in even.
    City: Vallejo

    Tips: Never give up when the bites slow, you never know what will happen.

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wen tout in search of Stripers. Launched out of Ladds and began by throwing spooks. Landed one 2.5 LM and two other 14" LM on chrome black traps. Went bqack toward the port of Stockton and founs an area with a lot of diving birds. Caught three just keeper stripers on a swimbait. All in all it was very slow at least in this area of the Delta.
    City: Hanford

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W first light, I fished all over the place, 2#er shook loose at the boat, landed several dinks, all came on drop shot (reaction innovations flirt worm, spring break), I fished a 7" watermelon senko, wacky, hoping for some bigger bites, I believe I got those bites but I dumped one before I could see it, and missed the others. Tried for stripers with spooks a lot of the day, no luck. @ the boat ramp coming in a club tournament was weighing in...ONE 13" FISH ONE IT!!! Holy crap!! Hope thins turn around soon.

    Tips: could'nt tell ya

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 57.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Whiskey and Mildred's. Saw them on graph but not biting. Top water, crank bait, and vertical jigging had no effect. SAW A BIG SEAL IN WHISKEY! Caught one on top water but was a keeper. Remember catch and release.
    City: Tracy

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 62-63 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Saturday, caught about 7 fish total. Big fish of 5.84 pnds came on clear sexy shad Strike King King Shad. Got him on incoming tide on weed edges. Just ripping the lure and letting it float up, about 3-4 second pauses. Caught other fish with same pattern with Strike King #5 Sexy Shad. Caught other fish flipping green pumpkin/watermelon double wide beaver on tule edges during morning outgoing. Over all tough bite.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Fish slow with cranks and deadstick plastics, if you don't get bit on plastics while dead sticking for about 5-10 seconds, pull your plastic out and move on.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Miners slough. There were lots of people on the water for such a cold and cloudy day. A buddy and I found some fish in very typical places. We caught 15 fish up to 10 pounds all around 5 points.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Rat L trap. Burn it. They are starting to really feed. Also, my traps were just getting trashed and all the chrome kept coming off after three or so fish from the hooks scratching. The fix is easy. Get some clear coat nail polish from the girlfriend or wife and put a couple coats on your chrome Rat L traps. It does not chip and I used just one trap yesterday and it still looks brand new. it was sweet. Good luck.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day overall, but I did get three fish... 2.5, 2.5 and 5.5 lbs. While I tried lipless cranks, jigs, c-rig; all three fish came on a red 6" shakey head rigged worm.
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: I fished the shakey head worm just outside the weedlines in 10+ feet of water.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Brandon Island, stop and fished the San Joaquin because fog was really bad. Caught 3 keeper Stripers biggest was 4# on pencil popper on the east wall between False river and Big Break. Ran over to the out side of Big Break no bites. Headed to Franks around 12 got 2 Strippers there on traps. Went up river to the Duck pond got 2 more small strippers and one large mouth. Slow day, small fish but still better then putting up freak'n christmas lights.
    City: Acampo

Friday, November 21st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice evening on the Delta. Although the fishing has declined over the years, there are still small pods of good size stripers roaming around. We had some very exciting topwater action in the last 1.5 hours of fishing. Nothing like topwater in about 3 feet of water. The fish were racing around as you can see the wake from them and their dorsal fin flared as they were attacking our baits. We landed probably about 10 between 4 to 12 lbs. and we lost three nice ones that would have gone in the 10 lb range along with a number of others all on the surface. A 10 lber is a large fish these days so we were pretty happy.

    Tips: Topwater before dark and rattle traps in the dark.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of tower park 2 days ago. we headed north toward sycamore and found 1 small school of stripers busting. Caught 5 fish there on rat l traps and flys up to 10 pounds. Found some scattered bass and picked them up on top water.
    Yesterday we launched out of the pirate lair and headed to the east of franks. Picked up a 6 to 7 pound largemouth on top but that was the last top water fish. The wind was crazy so we headed to Holland and found some stripers to 9 pounds and not schooled. Not sure whats going on with that. about 15 fish for the day
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: First, the stop and go retrieve for the rat l trap has yet to work for me. Let it sink and burn it in. If they are feeding, they'll hit it. Also, the largemouth are still hitting topwater right now so take advantage. Fish the weedlines. Stripers and Largemouth seem to be holding tight to the outside near current. Still no 100 fish days. Some reports might be b.s.