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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Stripers are slowly working there way into Disco Bay. Be catching them. Fish on.
    City: Discovery Bay

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 56-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished yesterday at the Delta only to find the fishing was tough!! The NCCC was won with a combined weight from SIX two man teams of (23/30 fish) for 48.9 lbs. The second Place team had (23/30 fish) for 48.6 lbs. The weight for this event is usually double that. A lot of teams without limits and the the wind never stopped blowing. The water temp dropped to 56 degrees at Russo's at blast off and warmed only to 58 degrees by weigh-in.

    Tips: Stay home!!!!

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of new hope fished the mokulemme slow for the first couple hours then thee spinnerbait bite turned on caught a lot of smallmouth up to 3 or 4 pounds almost all keepers on spinnerbaits chatterbaits crankbaits jerkbaits and shakeyheads
    City: sacramento

    Tips: fish your plastics very slow or drag a grud or robo slow but burn the spinnerbait close to the surface most of the time you can see the fish come up for it medium retreive the crankbait swim it past secluded weed patches 4-5 foot diving bait is probably your best bet

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Want to go out for stripers, can anyone give me location and what do? I am a beginner with stripers and want to learn.

    Don't sell the farm, just a piece of the pasture.

    Please email me.
    City: Sacramento

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3 of us went from 12-6 pm. caught 6.5# striper on deep dive crank and a few shakers on bait. located in whiskey slough.

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 69-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 3 different water clarities depending on where you go. Caught 2 fish in the clear water but caught more fish in the greenish, stained water. Caught 1 fish in the muddy water. Fishing was neither great nor bad due to change in barometric pressure from yesterday's low to today's high.
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: Didn't catch any on plastics because I didn't throw plastics.

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished saturday and sunday (hook tournament). very tough bite. caught 2 fish over 6# on frog and buzzbait and missed 2 more that were in that weight range. caught about 5 others but nothing of size. talked to few guys after the tourny and they all seemed to have a tough time getting a bite.
    City: carmel valley

    Tips: get out there at day-break and throw a frog or buzzbait, great blowups!

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: putin newhope motor wold not start fished up stream about 2 miles in mokelumne on electric took five on speed traps darn four strokes
    City: sacto

    Tips: get a two stroke

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    Water Temp: 70 to 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out to mildred island at 4 pm and we flipped around and frogged with nothing to show for it. then we went around some areas around mildred and flipped also nothing. after that we went out to a random slough and caught a dink on popper and missed to more. terrible day
    City: brentwood

    Tips: was cloudy for the first time in a while not sure if that had an affect on the fishing

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Out first light, fished White's and Disapointment, Bite was slow, but the size was there, got all the fish in a 100 yds stretch at White's.Got a 3# early morning on a BDS 3 and some samller fish on 5 in. senko. Also a 3+# Striper on a LC Pointer 128. Later in the afternoon got a 5#10oz on a Speedtrap and several other small fish. Tried some topwater with no luck
    City: Folsom

    Tips: fish slow, if you find fish, stay in that area.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went all day. caught 12 stripers, 1-5 lbs. partner caught 6-7 stripers same size. All on LV500s, up near big break/sherman area.
    City: SR

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hot Temps and no wind made for a tuff day. Threw everything got 2 fish until 4:00 p.m. then caught 4 more. Fished 9:30a.m.-7:30 p.m.
    Marked fish on drop offs. Couldnt get bit up tight or anywhere else for that matter. No topwater. Threw frogs and spinnerbait all evening. 1 strike.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Hope for some cooler weather. Fish seemed to be suspended between shallow and deep water. They were not looking up at all.

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out of B&W caught some nice fish nothing big had a good time took a friend from washington his first time bass fishing He had a good time . other than having a slight hangover had a good day. seen lots of baitfish jumping in the early am Im thinking stripers are really close to start showing up in schools. was going to go this saturday but got snagged up, going to try to get out sunday
    City: Elmira

    Tips: all caught on senkos 5 inch watermelon texas style. no blow ups

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: First time on central delta in many years today. We launched out of B&W, and since its like starting all over again for us.....we began fishing the Mokelume at first light. Several missed bites pitching plastic crawdads; damn I'm out of practice!!! One blow up on a topwater. Went down Lil Potato, nothing to show for it. Took a ride down to fisherman's cut, and stuck a nice 4.5lber. Fished a frog hard down that way...no blow ups? Hmmmm. Going out tommorrow first thing in am.....need more practice!! LOL
    City: vacaville

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68 to 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out to mildred in the morning caught one 2 pounder on popper. some more blows ups and some blow ups on buzz bait at about 6:30 AM. went out to a slough right after next to cruiser haven marina caught about 15 stripers and a miss of about a ten pounder on a jerk bait. went out to franks one dink.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: topwater in early morning. use poppers in mornings and once the sun goes up a little switch to a walk the dog.

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge at 4pm and fished til dark. Caught a few on drop shots. One 4.5 pounder on a perfect cast! Then after a few more beers, i decided to throw a hula popper in front of the tules and lily's. Fished patiently with it, then after a couple good pops, I see a swirl on top the water and Boom, fish on! A 7.9 pound bass! My personal best. Good day.
    City: Pleasant Hill

    Tips: Pop lock and drop it. Be patient, stop throwing what everyone else throws. check out my pics on westernbass!

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: night fishing on Frank Tract.... crazy wind blowing ..... 3 people manage to catch some striper(small)... As the wind calm down just a little.. landed 3 18" to 19" striper... Thank was it for the nite....

    Good a few question for the Benicia fisher out there....

    Is there mudsucker bait fishing out there now??? I remember using pile worm for bait and catching mudsucker off shore and use it for striper bait..... But I forgot what season it was......
    Thanks.... and good luck fishing......
    City: Union City

    Tips: If the wind is blowing hard... Don't go!!!!!!

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished outgoing. launched out of russos, saw some birds working in the main river, caught some small sb. wind blowing pretty hard. Worked se of franks for some LMB. one flipping, two white senko (up to 3.5 lbs) and several dinks. Fish looked as though they have not been feeding lately, pretty scrawny. quit at 1:30pm. tough fishing.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: water temps definitely came down from a couple of weeks ago. we started off the day fishing sand mound slough...only able to get a few hits. My bro caught one 4-12 in sand mound with a baby brush hog. Other fish and hits came off a senko. Spent too much time in unproductive water, which pretty much dampened the day. But with an hour or two left...we headed back out to franks...hung around the south east area near quimby and started fishing. Since my day was shot, i just wanted to see if there was any top water action going...and hoped i could catch a few misc stripers. 2 casts in...a small blow up near isolated tule clump. I stuck with that pattern looking for submerged s as well, and finally we got onto a nice pattern. I forgot to tie on a senko for all those missed hits...would probably would have increased our numbers. But regardless, it was a blast to get a good top water bite. We were throwing poppers...G-splash (lucky craft) and the mega bass popper. the g-splash got the most hits, but the mega bass brought out the big boys.
    City: el sobrante

    Tips: after my 2nd popper fish, the feathered treble hook got tattered, and started to fall off. after that I noticed the bite died down. Where as my bro's popper continued to get hits (feathers still in good shape). Most hits came on a long pause...and i believe the feathers siting still helped with this pattern. fall bite is just around the corner...and they are ready to eat!! good times!!

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out of B&w resort took a run to little mandeville. The good thing about the delta if you dont catch stripers break out the bass rods . fished for stripers caught some dinks soaked some bait for 4 hrs nothing to talk about . picked up and went around little mandeville fished south and west side went over to quimby island east side and nada, nothing looked really good on the incoming tide . it just was a tough day of fishing throwing senkos blades top water could not get a pattern down going to go next sunday with a buddy.. not to mention tourney going on. tight lines to all
    City: Elmira

    Tips: bad tide, tough bite today will knock um dead next week. get your fishing in early!!! cause all those big boats dont slow down,and try to swamp us bass fisherman