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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out with Randy Pringle, caught around 30+ ishes. great guys, we hitting mostly with top water and jerk bait. great ishing day.
      City: Bay area

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      Water Temp: 67-73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Found tons o ish working the speed trap between the rocks and weeds only problem most o the ish are 10-14" long. Woodward, Victoria and Old River are doing pretty good. Lots o small ones and an ocassional goood one 3 or 4lbs. Most o the better ish in these ares have been on a chartreuse Helix "like a senko" draggin it thorugh the weeds. Yesterday we had over 20 blow ups on the rog but most o them wern't taking it very good and we missed hookin up. We got 2 decent ish and lost 2 big ones on a chart gold Persuader spinnerbait.
      City: Concord

      Tips: I will give up some big ish tips ater next week, hopeully they work or me.

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took guide trip with Randy Pringle. Excellent day on water. We caught many ish in 3-5lbs range, with one over 6lbs. Mostly on top water, buzz baits and slimmy slugs. Probably caught 35-40 ish or day. Tip o the day stay in clearer water. Caught a ew lipping but top water was an all day bite. This is my second trip with Pringle and was taken to a dierent part o Delta S/E area. Man makes it a great day. The trip would be worth the money just or area knowledge, catchinga bunch o ish and learning some new techniques every trip is a plus.
      City: Oakland

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Ladd's Thur. @ 6 and ished the mouths o coves protected orm the wind just o the main channel. I caught 3 and my partner caught 2. The white spinner is still workin good and inally got the irst luke ish this yr. It was a nice quality 3+ ish. Fri. launched @ paradise point @ 6 and ished the north end o bishop cut and got 3. 2 on the blade and 1 luke ish that went about 3 lbs. I could see bass blowin up topwater at almost dark but couldn't get any takers on a buzz bait.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: White is still workin or me with the spinner and pearl white on the luke. Most blade ish come o o concrete or rip rap by tulles. Throw the luke at weed line or overhangin trees. Good luck and have un

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      Water Temp: 65' ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great day all around. Launched out o Orwood,(in the dark) with good riend Bill "Delta Stud" Durbin, his boat, his water, mostly his ish.Started in Slough with top water. Bill had a small limit by 6:15. (I'm not sure i I got a limit o keepers all day.)Prolly got 15-18 ish in Rock. I mostly threw senkos. ished middle-South Delta, Bill upped his weight considerably with a 5lb and two over three. total or the day was around 28-30 ish. I think I got 7 or 8, which means I got "Schooled:. It was a ton o un anyway, but then I had to get to work, ho-hum, here I sit. I hope you got more ater you dropped me o Bill.Thanks again.
      City: Redding/S.F.

      Tips: Top water lasted two hours. Large brush hogs got the bigger ish.

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      Water Temp: no guage

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Pixley and Dissapointment Sat. First ish came on a white buzz bait. Nothin till hour and a hal later and hooked into a nice ish on a white spinner with silver blades, but only to see her come unbuttoned at the boat. Only other ish came on the same spinner. Sunday ished 14 mi. slough and main channel and hit or 5. 4 largemouth and 1 striper. All largemouth came on rip rap next to the tulles.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Talked to a couple more bassers and we agreed that white seemed to be workin pretty good or the blade bite. Top water was an early bite and the blade bite shut o about 9-10.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday the 28th and Sunday, May 4th.28th - Caught over 50 ish during the day, ranging rom 1.5lbs to 7lbs. Fished rock walls with deined weedlines and sparse tulles. I threw 3/8 ounce wacko jigs in black/blue or black/red almost the entire day. I ished only the banks where wind was directly blowing into them, which were rather easy to ind this day. Caught the 7lb tagged ish on a spinnerbait irst thing in the AM. Most jig bites were pressure bites and not extremely aggressive. My backseat partner caught another 10+ ish on the trusty Senko. A great daySunday - Fished the 100% Futurepro out o Ladd's. Partner and I won the class portion o the event with 20.35 lbs. Caught three ish rom 4.6 - 5.8 that secured our inish. I caught my ish on jigs. Partner hooked his on Senko and Brush Hogs. All in all we caught over 25 ish and ished only two areas all day long. Both produced consistent ish or us.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Jigs...and more jigs. Fish rock with deined weedline and you will ind ish. Pop the jig aggressively when you reach the weeds and let it all...The bigger ish were all in weeds or closeby. Fished throughout the middle Delta. Work the bait back to the 12 oot area. Nearly all my jig ish were caught in the 6-10 oot range. Good luck and stay sae...PS. Thanks to Gary at Angler's Cove who inally convinced me to use jigs consistently...He's a real sportsmen and will show you what to use and when.

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      Water Temp: 59-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with the guide Randy Pringle. First time ishing with a guide. Known Randy many years but have very seldom ished with him.We launched at BxW at irst light. It was cold out and many guys where complaining o no ish. Well lets see, my sixth cast landed an 8lbs Large Mouth. Beore the day was out we had many ish 2-5 lbs. Most being in the 3-5lbs range. Most important was how much I learned about ishing the Delta. I have ished it or many years but I learned more rom Randy in one day then the last ten years ishing it. All this on a windy cold day with weather changing every ew minutes. I have already booked another trip with Randy or 19 March.One other thing that really impressed me, was I recently had my leg rebuilt rom injuries I got in Aghanistan and have a hell o a time getting around. Randy made it as easy as possible. I have ished with other Pro's, some o which have huge names. Randy could teach the ones I ished with beore a great deal.
      City: Oakland

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had some luck over the weed beds, hooked up to a ew dinks and 1 at emale. The o to the moss to land two 4+ in 20 minutes on brown rogs. Quit ater the wind and rain came back.
      City: byron

      Tips: Topwater when the sun comes out, use rogs in brown with yellow legs.Git-R-Done!

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My Nephew (Jr) can up rom San Diego to ish the delta. It has been 6 months and his swing was a bit slow on Fri. We got a late start 10:00, I put him on ish. We got 20+ bass on Senko's and jigs, in the rain and wind. On sat. we ish a club tourn. and he got his swing back. Not missing as many. We hit 30+ bass. Alot rats in the 13-14" rang and 1 crappie on Senko's and Jigs. Threw a rog on some mat and hit a 2# and 15 min beore weight in, threw a blade and hit my kicker (4.55 lb). I took 5th with 3rd big ish. Great ishing with you Jr. Hope two days o ishing did not wear you out.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Don't worry about the weather, Fish are hungry.. Throw everything you have conidence in. They'll eat it. We ished Senko's and Jigs most o the day. Don't be araid to throw a rog on mats, you'll be surprised.....

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around Franks all aternoon. (1PM to dark) Caught a couple (to 3lb) ish on gold/orange rattle trap. Even caught 10lb striper on that crazy lure. Also caught several decent blacks with the trusty ole Senko. Had almost constant action with the worms. Mostly o points, adjacent to tules/weedines. Sure beats the hell out o working!
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Try the oddball stu in your tackle box. You might get surprised. The bugs around the Tract were out or blood! Don't orget the bug spray!!!

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      Water Temp: 65-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the last bit o outgoing into the begining o incoming, about 10:30 till 3:30. We couldn't get much going down south, although we marked water temps into the low 70's in some o the looded islands and slack water areas. Headed to central delta and concentrated on low low areas and pitched 7" senkos and a big tube bait to shallow weed pockets. We only boated ive (missed two) but they were all decent ish, averaged about 3 1/4lbs.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: All our ish were in 2 eet o water or less. On a side note, The B.A.S.S. guys are all over the delta right now preishing. Kind o un to ish along side some o the big boys I've seen on T.V.

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      Water Temp: Warming up

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7-12 sat and sun. Found ish all throughout taylor, piper, and little ranks. Most ish came on black home-made jigs and homemade pumpkin trailers. Also got ish on stick-Os tight to the bank, and cranking weedlines between little ranks and the deeper surrounding channel. 15 ish or two days with 2 ish over 4 pounds, both on the jig, both spawned out and very skinny and worn out. Both the bigger ish came in deeper water (6-10 t.) It's unny I take my dad out or a rare bass trip on Saturday, and he gets a 4 pounder rom the back o the boat, his biggest largemouth to date. Then on Sunday, I take my partner/brother out, and he gets his biggest to date @ 4.3 pounds rom the back o the boat. My biggest or the weekend was a 2lb crank ish. Go igure! Oh well, we got a lot o spring let! Good luck guys.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: GET OUT FISHING THROW WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST BE ON THE WATER!

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      Water Temp: 66-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the last 3 hours o daylight down souh during low tide. Had perect conditions or a good spinner bait bite, stained water, cloud cover, steady breeze and an incoming storm. Only one problem, not a single bite on blades. I'm stubborn so I kept trying to orce a bite that just wasn't happening. My girlriend however, quickly reverted to her trusty watermelon/red senko and stuck a 6.9. Then a 3 and so on. I inally switched to a 7" senko and managed a ew 1.5's. Hmmmmm, big bait small bass, small bait bigger bass. oh well, always un
      City: TRACY

      Tips: All our ish were very shallow, and tight to cover. Found several on the beds, but with the wind we were literally on top o them beore we noticed em'.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: to below crankin is alot easier then trowing senko's senko's i ished right produce alot more ish dont you think the smart isherman would ish with what produces. 20 pnds hey you should become a guide cathching all these ish the act is everyone can catch ish on alot o dierent things on the delta dont be so closed minded
      City: manteca

      Tips: ish with whatever you ell comortable with i your tourney ishing or money then you would be better o ishing with a sure bet senkos or crankbaits whetever the lavor o the week is

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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished two guide trips out o Big BReak this weekend. Headed out with great expectations ater the good ishing experienced last week and the stabalizing weather. The crank bite we ound last week all but disappeared on the grass lats. Went back to the jig early and began getting crushing bites on rock ledges in about 10 oot o water. Strange thing occured on that irst rock bank that we patterned all day. The ish would literally crush the jig, but on the hook set we would come up empty, or the ish would run o the bank and spit the bait. 25 slammin bites and one 2 pound ish in the boat to show or the day. Same occurance on Sunday, we abandond the crank bite early. Adjusted some, with some modiications to the jig by trimming the hair & Weed gaurd, increasing the weight and using a smaller piece o pork. This helped some as we boated 1/3rd o the ish that bit on Sunday. 10 ish caught on Sunday, but another 20+ missed bites.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Most areas o the Delta have settled in with temps ranging rom 53 in the morning to as high as 57 in the aternoon in the backs o calm areas. The south Delta remains above 60 degrees in most areas and ry are now present in some locations. While it does look like a small number o ish have spawned in the south, most o the ish through out the river system seem to be in some state o lux and are very lethargic and inactive. As always, there are some guys who seem to ind a group o active ish and are in the right place at the right time. Looking at the weights o this weekend's tournaments, they were not as strong as they should have been and most anglers did experience a tougher bite than last week. The best ishing the Delta has, is yet to come! Cranks and blades, mostly in chartruese, seem to be the most consistant producers. The jig isherman, are getting they're are share o quality bites and the ish are starting to really turn on this bait. The plastic bites are still ar and too ew between to rely on at this time.

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to 14mi. on Thursday. Fished all day or three 2-21/2lb ish. Cranked all three near mouth adjacent to Windmill Cove. Only saw two other ishermen all day! Tried Senkos, Spinnerbaits and jigs with no success. Sping Crawdad pattern Rappala Crankbait only bait to produce!
      City: holt

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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this Monday and Tuesday with Joe & Brent, two clients rom the Sacramento area who had never been on the Delta beore. Due to the recent temperature drops and swinging cold ronts, the ishing on the River or me has been very unstable as o late. Establishing solid patterns on a day to day basis has been very tough to do and getting more than 6-8 bites a day was the norm. Granted, these bites have been good ones, it hasn't been the typical ishing we expect o the River in late February early March. But the bite the last two days seems to have picked up as the temperatures are now slowly rising steadily. The over night and morning temps are not near as low as they have been the last couple o weeks allowing the daytime sun to do it's thing. Small chartruese crankbaits and 1/8 minature Bomber spinner(Bush Whacker), also in chartruese, produce the most numbers o ish early in the day ishing around shallow (2-4')grass lats with isolated wood structure. These ish were mostly in the 2-3 pound range and clearly were bucks on the move. Each day we caught 15-18 ish. All the better ish we caught each day, ranged rom 3.5-9.5 pounds, came rom deeper haunts(8-16') on a 3/8 or 1/2 oz brown jig with olive pork. We did catch a ew decent ish on the black blue combo. Saturday's big ish included a 7.5 pounder, 6 and 4.5. On Sunday, we only had one big bite rom these deeper haunts, and it was a goodin, weigh'n in at 9.5 pounds.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Water temps are rising and starting out at around 53 degrees in the morning and climbing to 55-56 through out the day over most o the River. We did ind some very warm water in the south Delta that peeked out at 60.1 on Sunday aternoon(but never got bit!) Forecasted warming trends will surely drive the temps o quickly over the next ew days. The irst wave o ish are now starting to move, chuck and winding a small Fire Tiger crankbait, my irst choice being a 3A Fat bomber, Timber Tiger or 1/8 oz Speed Trap will put a lot o ish in the boat. Crank the deeper rock walls and you're liable to stick some bigger ish that are on the move. Smaller bucks are now starting to stack up on the points o grass lats. The bigger hens are still deep, but they are now beginning to eed and all or the Jig-n-pig. Fish the bait agressively, add some rattles till the water really clears and use lotsa "catchup"(BANG)! The Senko and plastic bite or me is non existant right now, but will surely bust loose any day!

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Saturday I had it working o the rocks in 2-10 eet in the south Delta using lizzards Texas rigged. Caught 3 ish out 6 bites (weak). Missed 3 darn it. Sunday was impossable. The ish had moved and I couldn't ind em but I saw this guy get 2 right in ront o me. He was ishin 12 eet usin a brush hog in the ast movin water. I ished his water ater he let but came up empty. Had to be the weather....yeah, right! I'll get em next time.
      City: San Leandro

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      Water Temp: 56.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had an interesting day today. We caught many ish in the 3lb range with ouy best a 6.8. I say interesting because today we were throwing (literally)- giant- sencos watermelon red, and green somethin or another with lippin sticks and actually catching ish.Most ish came in 8 to 10 o water near deep points, wood or a dock structure near the point was deinatley a plus.......Micster
      City: Tracy