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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

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Neal, Thanks for the last report. It saved me alot of searching.seems as if the points with baitfish activity had stripes on them. I ended up with 3 Stripes to 15lbs. I ran out of those slingers so I came in early. good day all around.
    City: Benicia

    Tips: Thanks for the reports. Hope my report helps someone else out there.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Big Break early. Blow ups on Buzzbaits around tule islands. 2 fish to 4lbs. The wind picked up and switched over to a weedslinger. Hooked two schoolie Stripers to 12 lbs.Missed a few others. I didn't know the Stripes had moved in yet.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: look for baitfish and birds aound tule islands. You will find fish.

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's with Eric Thoss for an afternoon of fun and fishing..We stayed pretty much in Frank's looking for clear areas among all of the weeds..Spotted a lot of bass, mostly small ones, but a few good quality tournament fish..Frank's was just about as smmoth as glass, and the tide was outbound for most of the time we were there..Tossed Sweet Beavers, Senkos, Rattle Traps, Speed Traps, Chatter Baits and Jigs..Caught fish on everything except the jigs..I still need to learn more about jig presentation and fishing..I am sure if I had been doing it right and in the right place they would have caught fish also..Caught a ton of dinks, some not much larger than the baits they were gaught on..Cplors of the baits didn't seem to make much difference on their effectiveness..I used 6 different colors of Senkos and caught fish on all of them..Not sure what color the Sweet Beavers were that Eric was tossing, but they sure drew the attention of nearby bass..The crankbaits were all red/orange colored and the bass lined up to chasse them..I was a great afternoon to be on the water..
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Look for clear water with deeper water in the same area..If all the young bass we saw survive the coming winter, the bass population of the Delta will be unbelievable..Good luck all..

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took wife with me. Fished for 4 hours in the afternoon. Wife caught the big fish of the day 3.0 LB on a wacky rigged Senko. I caught a lot of small fish on spinner bait and Jigs. Concentrated in the Mokelumne Fiver area.
    City: W.Sac

    Tips: Take your wife fishing. A couple that fishes together stays together.

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: If you want to catch small fish like me throw plastics on the main river. Better fish were caught in the sloughs off the main river. Seinkos were the ticket for one fisherman who nailed an 11 1/2 pounder on a wacky rigged seinko. Winning weight for folsom bass team was 15lbs I think. Lots of limits for 15 teams. I caught fish all day and all small. 2 keepers?
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Wish I could help. I need tips to find the bigger quality fish. HELP

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: wow talk about bait fish everywhere! difficult to find a solid pattern, after a couple hours found some promissing water and it did not dissapoint. Caught fish on mainly t-rigged plastics, pitching to shaded docks and gangplanks, fish were sitting in the shade, best fish came from 5-8 feet of water, 17lbs for the best 5. Topwater has been dead for me.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: watermelon baby brush hogs and screwed up jig with a single tail yammi grub #208 color worked best for me. However it has been something different on every trip, so gotta to adjust.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70-72 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cranked LK crankbaits in Dutch Slough, 4 doinks LB & 1 doink SB. Couple good slurps on frogs, but no hookup. Went to Sherman Lake at dusk and threw Lunker punker for Stripers-zero. Couple frogs hits there also, but none caught. Lots of misquitoes (?sp) at dusk.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: If you like catching fish, don't fish like me!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished outgiong tide started at Decker Island, caught 2, 2lbers on white speed traps on the inside weed line. Moved to Franks area and got 1 4.1 on a watermelon senko 6". Broke off a very large bass who jumped afterwards and shook so hard we could hear the rattles from the rattle trap still stuck in his mouth. At the bottom of the tide we went to white blades and quickly caught 4 fish near a cut in the bank. Two 2's a 3 and one 8+ who I tried to lip cuz I forgot the net and managed to unhook blade instead of grabbing the lip. But we did get to see him...
    City: loomis

    Tips: Threw reaction baits most of the day except for 1 senko fish.

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 74 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went up Georgeana slough to get away from boaters caught a hand full of dinks 2,lbers lost a nice fish around oxbow marina ran out of gamakatsu hooks was using some other hook without the G-lock never got a good hook set . fishing with senko 5 inch. Caught a small mouth bass was surprised first small mouth I have ever seen in Delta up around oxbow. had a fair day got kinda windy later in the day off the water at 7:00 pm got in @2:00 pm
    City: Elmira

    Tips: Mke sure you got plenty of gear before you go out Used small rattles in senko allways works out good They sell them at Bass pro shops

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weather had been scorchin hot, so I had to go. One thing about the delta, is that it's current driven and when the lakes get tough, the delta only gets better with the stable, hot weather. Was a good day. Frog, wake bait, swim bait and shakey head all worked. No monsters, but best 5 went 19'10 and I didn't have a fish over 4 1/2. That's some good quality. Chasing shade was key, as was finding deeper pockets just outside of the current. My best bites came on the shakey Aarons Majic. Fished all middle delta, right off the main channels.

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish Franks and Fisherman's cut yesterday in a turkey shoot. Hardley any boats out and calm wind. Striper activity everywhere and a couple of sea lions out full force. We fish the out going tide around 5:00 and caught tweety bird frog fish around 3-5 foot of open water near tullies and flip fish (301 senkos and watermelon/green pumpkin beavers) in the same areas. Over all it was a tough bite, with only half of dozen fish caught, biggest 3.5lbs...good luck
    City: Fremont

    Tips: fish slow and dead stick!!!

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    Water Temp: 77-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: It was hot out there today. Very little wind. Fished Hog, Sycamore, Potato, and Frank's Tract. For the day, we caught about 25 black bass (4 keeper size - largest 2+ lbs) and 10 stripers (3 keeper size - largest 4+ lbs). Most caught on crank baits with a few on senkos.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: We caught most of the stripers in a 30 minute span in Frank's Tract cranking 3/4 oz Rat L Traps.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This is a 2part report. First, I want thank all of those who write reports. For those who don't have much luck, it makes me feel like I'm not the "lone ranger." For those who have good days, it gives me hope.
    Part 2 is Grouchy and I went out of Big Break on Wednesday and started in Sherman Island. The first spot was great. Numerous frog boils and we boated about 5 fish, all clones. 2.5lbers. We fished a little more in the area and then went to the Break area, both with poor results. Big Break waters were clear and the weather was great all day. Very warm but a nice breeze. Conditions seemed great and it was hard to believe we went 3 hours with only a couple of rats. Around 2:30 we got into some action again and finished the day with a few keeper size bass and a couple of small stripers. All the fish(not that many) came on frogs, rattletraps or small swim baits.
    City: orinda

    Tips: I'm still a delta dummy. All I know is that when your'e in the right place at the right time it can be real good. If someone could just tell me where the right place is and when's the right time...oh forgot to mention that my bud, grouchy caught most of the fish.

    wOrm

Monday, August 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough Day too much wind. Started in the North Frk Mc River area. Fished Franks then back to the Mc. Could not get a spinner bait bite to go for me. Ended up with 6 fish, only 2 keepers to 3lbs.
    City: W. SAC

    Tips: I'll be baaaack.

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of Pittsburg 6:00 am got the incoming early and the out go too am topwater bite good You can all stay out in the bethal island area I love fishing all alone out here I even got on some swim bait fish lost a really big girl too was not a striper saw it I had about 17-19 lbs for five fish and lot 2 lbs lmb also always fish for stripers out here I stuck 4 stripers biggest striper 7 lbs biggest lmb 6 lbs alright day found some great new clear water
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: I threw a bone vixen all day mixed in with a optium swim bait the new chart shad is deadly out this way stripers and large mouth both were crushing the swimbait go to sherman than maybe come even farther west ha ha this was an ok day can be so much better its about turn on in another month fish on