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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I started out of Rio Vista for Stripers. I worked my way towards the Sac river. Threw a Weedslinger in an around the Schools. The best weather and day I have had. 12 Stripers to 14 lbs. I will be back in the morning. Awesome day
    City: folsom

    Tips: Look for the birds. Then throw in the area. Hold On!

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished hog slough . small fish at mouth, went in about half way and caught 4+,& 5+ back to back.windy and tough
    City: linda

    Tips: jigs

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Fishing was good overall. Caught 10 total...Two very large (9+), four (4+), 2 (3+), 2(2+). Fishing last hour of incoming and the other side. Focused on the middle river learning new water that looked good. Caught (9) on jig and (1) on drop shot. Threw chatter, swimbait, and senko without any success. Fished deep rock walls with sparse tulles interspersed. All fish caught in 5-12 feet of water. Total of 12 bites.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Caught fish on 3/8 brwn/green combination jig and MMIII drop shot (7 inch). Key with the jig was slow presentation. A couple bites were ferocious but most were subtle pick ups with weight. Key seemed to be finding deep rock that had sparse grass in the 5-10 foot range. Not your typical Spring pattern but cooler weather and poor water clarity told me to think off the bank a bit and it worked. Best 5 was easily 27+ lbs. The two larger fish were both caught in 6-8 feet of water.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My son-n-law and I fished the Police, Fire and Corrections tournement this past week held on the 10th and 11th. 63 teams participated. The best showing ever for this tournement. I first want to again send out a HUGE THANK YOU! to Gene at the Hook in Oakley for the quick repair he did for us on the Minn Kota 101 on Wednesday. You saved our butts Gene. Tuesday afternoon on the way back to B&W we hit a cross wave in the main cannel and sheared the head off the trolling motor. We thought our week was done. But by 10am on Wednesday it was fixed and our week was saved. We were on some pretty good fish in prefish in the Track. At low tide the swimbait bit was ON! On Thursday, first day of the tourney, we started in the Track and by 8am we were culling. First fish,5+. Swimbait! The rest of the day, Senkos. 7" whacky. Until the tide bottomed out then the swimbait bit was back on. At the end of the first day we were in 9th with a little over 22lbs. On Friday we managed another 17+ good enough for a 6th place finish. First place was 58lbs. Thank you Russ Marta for a GREAT tournement. It was our pleasure to pitch in and help. We look forward to next year. Good Times for all. Tom
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Low Tide, throw the swimmer, untill then 7" senkos were the ticket for us either watermelon, blk/red flake or purple

Monday, April 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The wind was tough but managed to land some toads around white slough. Tossed big baits and some frogs. next week looks good highs in the 80's its on!!!
    City: Lodi

    Tips: Mission Fish (white)
    http://www.swimbaitsyndicate.com

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south delta area with Dan Mathisen. Windy and cold, tough fishing but Dan put us on some good Bass. Boated a 5, 8 and 9 pitching senkos.
    City: Fresno

Friday, April 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: low 60s

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Cliff Croxall of Benicia, CA and I fished April 4&5 (Fri/Sat)in the Frank's Tract and Mildred areas. Air temps were a little warmer than at clear lake, but still cool and windy (wore warm clothes all day). We caught 20 plus bass in two full days of fishing. Highlight for me was catching a 6-6 on a jig/sweet beaver combo in 6-10 feet (my biggest jig fish to date). She was all spawned out in the mid-section but had a huge head (probably a 7-8 lb fish a couple weeks prior). Cliff caught three or four 4 lbers. The rest were in the 2-3 lb range. We primarily pitched sweet beavers on a 3/16 oz texas rig (sprayed grass) and 6" senkos in green or purple. The primary pattern to success was pitching to tule island points with deeper water nearby (5'-20'). Following the high, outgoing tide seem to be best.
    This was my third time fishing the delta. Finally starting to find a method to this madness. Some of Cliff's club members stated they were catching bass on red cranks and spinnerbaits along rock shorelines (7 lber on spinnerbait). We took several great pictures with cliff's new digital camera that could have ended up on the cover of Basswest magazine!
    City: San Diego, CA

    Tips: fish tule island points with deep water access, during the outgoing tide.
    If you get "blown out" of Frank's track with white caps, head to the Holland/Mildred areas where it remains calm and out of the bay breeze.

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: d-castro hang in there, the last two weeks we either hit them big or struggled all day. spinner baits worked a week and a half ago. jigs black and blue still ok, chatter bait with swim sinko guarenteed.speed trap crank bait on the rock walls 50 50.today we saw a ten pounder caught on chad crank, it was not us,two days ago fished the incoming with crank and spinning nothing to speak of then put a chatter with a sinko,got a 4 5 5 8 lost a 6 to a seven at boat within thirty minutes then nothing after tide whent high, use the sinko off island tullys when nothing elese works
    City: san ramon

    Tips: weather change are the days not to miss....

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Blue daddy ranger, help me with tips,info,temps, depth. Dont want yours spots, just tips. Frequently you post toads on pictures, great job for you obvisouly you know your delta, so any advice would be apperciated, thanx. my e-mail is posted if you respond.
    City: Lathrop

    Tips: Dont have any but, John does.

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched off of 8 Mile road just out of Stocton and stayed within 5 miles of it for the morning. Started early and got nathan on top. Went down with spinners and swims and still didnt do to well. Finally worked a floating deep diving excaliber crank in shad and picked up a few. Dad got some on 4 inch worms splitshoting. Pretty poor for the Delta, Any suggestions would be appriciated for a newer ficherman
    City: Sactown

    Tips: Could use some.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hey you guys wanna catch a few bass and maybe some stripers go hit up the levee in disco bring a bike and ride all the way out to the river and start at the pipes and just keep going before i got a boat thats what i did all the time caught some nice fish and usually the scenery is nice too ladiesssss yeeeah good luck
    City: compton

    Tips: spinnerbaits or rattletraps are the best bet stick with it you will get them

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Ladd's at 8 a.m. and man was it cold. Headed for 14 mile slough and caught a 1.5 on the first cast. Well you know what that meant - next bite came 2 1/2 hrs. later. As the tide rose and it warmed up some the fish started to respond a little bit but not what I was hoping for. Caught 11 fish up to 5.9 but the next biggest was just 2.5. No real pattern to speak of, just threw everything in the box at them - 5" senko worked the best, two on a jig and three on a white spinnerbait and that was it. It really hasn't turned on for me yet this year, seems like it's still a little on the cold side. None of the fish caught today showed any signs of spawning, their tails looked brand new.
    City: Stockton

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55.0deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Any how you guys .....went out B&W late 10:00 am took the wife with me and fished around, to find not alot going on saw the weigh in at launching ramp I think the biggest went 9.0lbs good job you guys at the tourney. only boated one fish wind was a pain in my a#$. and cold threw swim baits all morning no takers , one on senko, going to wait for a little more consistant weather and for the water to warm up . going to fish with swim baits first part of spawn, going to lay down senko and all other baits and be patient . looking for a personal best. sorry not a good report . they are there saw nice fish coming in at tourney weigh in. just need to locate and move around and find them . tight lines to all c ya on the water. PLASTIC MAN1
    City: Elmira Ca

    Tips: Keep on fishing , dont give up! throw it all at them, its going to bust loose soon....

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's at 7:30am and fished the Tract. Lots of boats in my planned area so tried Old River and only got a few dinks. Around 12:30pm went back to the Tract no bites so when we were just about to quit my buddy Hanson hooks a 6.2 and I get a 4.9. took a picture of the 6.2. Both fish were released and hopefully will make another angler happy or at least give us some more little ones!
    City: So. San Francisco

    Tips: The 6+ was caught on a Helix and mine was caught on a watermellon senko. You never know when that fish is going to bite so make that last cast when you can. Water is clearing up nicely so get out there when you get a chance.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55.7 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: well went out of b& w at 6:45am Did some great fishing today it got windy today every one was looking for a break . lots of big fish, had a taker 8 lbs or more, lots of dinks on senko , broke out the ol mighty swim bait and what a day i had up to 10 fish today, noticed the tail on the big one was flat on the bottom, you all know what that means, yep its that time of year. get out and beat the water to a froth, saw my friend dave out in his boat with his buddy and they were doing great catching some nice fish . we were both out of the water at noon. Great job Dave it was tough fishing today but we hooked it up all morning. going to go out tommorrow morning and hit it again, looking for the monster bass.. got to get a digtal scale, mine is on the blink, will have one by tomorrow. tight lines, c ya on the water.. ps. water is clearing up nicely
    City: Elmira Ca

    Tips: throw it all at them fishing is getting good.. throw them swim baits. find where there stacked up slow roll on the swim baits, seemed to work for me around syphon pipes , and any large stuctures may not produce quanity , but will produce quality.. be patient

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ B&W 6:30am. Went south. Bent rods, two 4 lbs in the box. Eight more 1-2 lbs. Got windy, went around Venice and got into a few more 2-4 lbs. Senkos brought'em in. Seen Plastic Man land a huge 8 lb bucket mouth near one of his favoite spots. He showed us his secret - plastic of course. Then he released it. Had a great day except for NW wind. Thanks for all the advise Plastic Man.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: Have Fun. Throw what you know. Have a brew dad and Get Bent.

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On a solid reaction bite from 7:00am to 10:00pm at incoming high tide. Caught about 15 plus fish nothing bigger than 4.5lbs. Bite slowed down a bit but picked up again about halfway of outgoing tide stuck another 10 fish on plastics. Best 5 were 19lbs. Another great day on the Delta.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Fish, fish some more and then fish some more. Success to all there is alot of quality fish right now.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went our with Floor Guy my side kick. We were just having fun. Hit the out going tide in the afternoon and fished for 2 plus hours. Not really being real serious and caught five fish. Five minutes before we were done landed a 12.5 lbs. It was my p.b. and I have only been fishing for 6 months in the delta.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Used speed trap crank bait and stuck with it.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: DID OK TODAY.TWELVE FISH.TWO GUYS, FROM 1LB TO 8LBS.3# 4# 8# the largest.. VERY WINDY GOT THEM ON OUT GOING TIDE NEAR WHISKY SLOUGH ON SPEED TRAP CRANK BAIT. NO LUCK ON SPINNG BAIT OR CHATTER BAIT.HAD WEATHER BEEN BETTER WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM.the wind did cut the day short..
    City: SAN RAMON

    Tips: KEEP CHANGING IT UP. THINGS SEEM TO CHANGE ALMOST DAILY.REACTION BAITS ARE WORKING. DONE FLIPPIN...

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58 -62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I have been following the Delta fishing reports and decided to fish the Delta for the first time this year. Thanks for all the good reports. My buddy and I fished the Franks Track area all day because of the wind. In the morning, there was an outgoing tide. The water is still muddy but the temperature was up to 58

    Tips: We could see other fisherman having success with other techniques. One person said, he fished a reaction bait all day with good success (I don