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      Water Temp: 48.5-49.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out o orwood this morning, ran south got nothin, ran back to disco got one strike on a craw wiggle wart did not land it. went back to restaurant had burger and bloody mary.
      City: oakley

      Tips: burger and bloody mary were excellent.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: my dad and I hooked 14 large mouth 1.5/2 Lbs and 4 striper 6 to 12 Lbs on the south delta today .It was Incredibale ishing but the rain was horrible .I just want to send out thanks to Bobby barrack i it wasnt or his training during are guided trips we Would still be catching 2 or 3 dinks all day I dont brage on to many people but i you want to learn to catch ish all year on all the baits he is the man to show you .
      City: Elk grove

      Tips: rogs,plastics,spiners,spooks,jigs,jerks,you name it he makes it hapen in the dead o winter.

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Another very oggy morning out o Orwood. Fished The Hook Tourn. and desided not to run in the og, but shoot straight into Disco. Stayed in there all day again. Dragged, Dropped-shot, Pitched, and Flipped plastics around rocks and docks. What a day with 20+ bass, 30+ tug/bumps/pick-ups, with our best 7 going 10.91 giving us 16th. Great job Auston, We are doing great, We have 2 more to go.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: The ish are there and go slow.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The striper bite- i went out on the 1st and caught 8 ish. One okay one weighing about 8#. Fished near Frank's Tract with shad or bait. Also caught one just under 18in with a white spinner bait. The ishing seems to be a little slower than last year. Good luck!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Shad, white spinnerbaits, chrome colored rattle traps...Let theish take the bait or LONGER than you eel is necessary. You'll land alot more this way. I probably missed 4-5 ish.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out o paradise point at irst light went to avorite spot in whites and threw spooks or 20 min with no luck then switched to crawdad color speed trap and caught 6 ish to 2 lbs outside weedline. played around with senkos a bit and caught 3 small ish. no big ish today bite seemed to be better on bottom o tide
      City: elk grove

      Tips: where are the big ones somebody help me

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late launch on Fri and ound almost 2 dozen boats ishing the same weed lines out in Franks. Traps and topwater produced or us and or most o the other boats around. Although, they were a bit on the small side, not one over 6 that we saw. Hit a ew middle Delta spots with only a ew to show or it. Tried a ew big ish spots without a bite. Couldn't get bit in Sherman even with decent 2-3 oot water clarity and the tide we like so we ran back to the Break to inish o. Great topwater bite the last 1/2 hour o light. Several double hook-ups with ish up to 10lbs. Even my girlriend's son bagged a 9 1/2 on a 6' med spin rod with a trap, what a ight! Plus 3 largies to 4 1/2.Sun dierent story. A ew good rolls at irst light with 3 in the boat to 8lbs, then nothing. Fished traps and topwater hard and all over or the next 3 hours with nada. Finally switched to spoons on schoals in 15-20 eet o water and boated 8 quick ish to 4lbs. Oh well, bad tides I guess, at least we all hooked up.
      City: TRACY

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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launch rom Lazy M 1st light, ished my butt o all the way to Disco Bay with no result. Switched up to a spoon or strippers at the bridge on old river and caught 1 keeper 2 dinks but better than 0.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Dress warm and enjoy yoursel.

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Boated a dozen stripes between 7:30 and 9am wed morning. Only took 45 min to idle rom the Break to Franks in all that darn og. Fish started at 5lbs and up to a couple 10's all caught on top water ished along weedlines. Back out or a little pre-turkey stripering thurs...more og! More topwater ish in Franks and the Holland area rom 4-8lbs. The really un part was we put together almost a 20lb bag o largemouth anchored by a 6 1/2 by my girlriend, rom one small patch o grass, all on the same giant pencil poppers we were catching the stripes on. Bite really slowed once the sun inally came out, save or one pig that rolled on me twice then went completly airborne and managed to avoid getting stuck.
      City: TRACY

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my old buddy Tony went out north o Ryer Island and ished or about 1 hr. not anibble....so o to Firing Line. 45 mins later Tony got a good hit, then nothing, 30 seconds later BAMM! He pulls in a 14lb Striper. A ew shakers later I pulled in a19 incher....later in the aternoon I got what elt like a shaker till it got up nearthe boat and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz it took o like a bat out o hell..... bent my polein hal...damm I wish I could have seen it beore it got o... anyway, great day ishing!
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Hot coee, one beer @ 12:01 (i the suns out) 20 eet o water, a unny riend, bullheads

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Tiki ater og broke. Went looking or striper. I they are in Mildred, they were not visible in any orm. Found some in Whiskey and surrounding, but biggest only our or so. Blacks were willing on west-acing rip-rap using black/red baby brush hogs and shad-colored rattle baits. Also spooned up a ew away rom shore while trying out the striper.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Blacks were airly shallow on rip-rap ater sun out or hour or two, but wanted plastics tight to bottom.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Orwood Launch both days early AM. Foggy Monday so stayed inside discovery Bay or irst 2 hours without a hit. ished avorite rip rap just outside o disco and had plenty o action on outgoing tide w/cranks (shad) to 3.5#. Over to holland cut and ound birds, baitish and blacks. action was urious or 30 minutes. 11 total in a small area using cranks - all keepers 13" to 3#.Action slowed both days ater 11am. when tide turned to incoming crankbaits were dead but roboworms and MGM worms did the trick along same rip-rap, island points and drops. Even mixed in a ew stripers. Very strong 2 day bite.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Natural color crankbaits W/rattles along rip-rap on the outgoing. Parrallel the bank and keep moving. Aarons magic (Robo)& Fall craw (MGM) Island points. & rip rap w/ decent drops. Almost every begginning & end o bends produced ish along the rocks. Fish were a lillte lethargic but were keyed in on cranks. No spnnerbait bite at all.

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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bobby Barrack guide trip today rom 6am to 6pm. Chased stripers with pencil poppers and traps all over Franks, Big Break, Sherman, little Franks and around Holland. Boated at least two dozen decent ish, not counting the shakers. My girlriend bested her own record 3 times over with a 10.5, a 14 (wouldn't ya know it, I handed her my rod to untangle her backlash when this one exploded on top) and a 14.8. In the mix were 9 or 10 largies, mostly little guys but my gilrriend stuck three in the 4lb range. Plus I boated three Steelhead rom 2 1/2 to 4 1/4. As always with topwater ishing, we missed a lot o ish. but we saw some toads (a ew looked like 20's) chasing our baits, rolling, swatting and putting on a heart pounding show only to turn away at the last second. What a un day, Bobby really works hard to keep his clients happy and is a great guy to hire i your looking or a Delta guide trip.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: We ished shallow water (5t or less) all day long.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: RE: to the tagged bass that was caught. I too caught a tagged Largemouth in the delta. In act I caught 2 in 1 week. I know there is no address on the tag to send it to, so I inquired about it and here's what you do. Send the tag to "Tag Recovery, Central Valley Bay-Delta Branch, 4001 North Wilson Way, Stockton, CA 95205" Send the tag, along with your name, phone number, address, how long the ish was, the weight, what you caught it on, where you caught it, weither you caught it rom shore or in a boat, the date and time you caught it, i you want the tag back or not, and any other inormation that you have about the ish. It will take you a while to receive the check so dont worry i you havent received anything or a while. You can also call DFG and they will give you a phone number to call. Goodluck
      City: Livermore

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: "Disco" reers to the development o Discovery Bay on the South end o the Delta near Brentwood.
      City: San Francisco

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On Saturday, hit the stipers and blacks all day. Got a LOT o ish. Landed 40+ stipers jigging spoons up to 3 lbs. Got blacks on rattle traps up to 4lbs. Sunday, landed another 30+ stripers on spoons. One going 3.5#, another 4#, a 6# and one iesty bastard going 11 lbs. Great day, good dinner!!
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Get out there while its hot. Should last another month or so. PS - This is the only time o year where chasing birds doesn't deem you insane. LOL Good luck guys.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 3 Oregon boys ished Delta or our annual striper trip. Stayed at B&W. Had a great 4 days. Wind drited the weed lines in Franks Tract and mostly burned shad colored 1/2 oz Rattle Traps. Lots o stripers with many 22"-24". Largest was 28". Thur. morning had 7 in 8 casts! Topwatered (Zara Spook) some ish early in the morning. Also several largemouth each day including one that was 5 lbs. Also ished Mildred but all ish were small.
      City: Portland Oregon

      Tips: Dull colored (smokey joe) Rattle Traps seemed to produce better than bright silver traps as there was no wind and conditions were very calm. Fish the weed lines and the channels between them. Make long casts. Action slowed 10am-3pm. Spooned some stripers in deeper water middle o day. Move around and ind ish (and bait) on depth inder.

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-ished on Saturday then ished the Hook tourney on Sunday..Fish or us were scarce..Not even many dinks..Launched rom Orwood then headed or Rock Slough..Still trying to learn all o the waters in the area..Used just about everything in the tackle box but jigs..Guess we should have tried them, cause nothing else worked..One keeper on tournament day, a healthy 2.2 pounder..Ran into a couple o guys cranking a tule bank on Old River that had a 10+ in the livewell on Saturday..Sure could have used that sucker Sunday..
      City: San Jose, CA

      Tips: Beats me, but I am going to keep trying..

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Clovis Bass Club had a 2 day tournament.11 boats with teams. 7 ish limit.Only 3 teams had limits both days.Winning weight was 32.72They used Senko's on rip rap, not a lot o weeds.Second place was 31.92 he ished weed lines with a chartruse spinner bait/slow. Some crank ish too. he reported he looked or real dirty water.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Spinners, cranks, senkos, remember the tides.ish with the tides.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Discovery Bay, Indian slough and False river area or 7 hours on 10/04. Worked mostly with Senkos, but also tried rattle traps and spinners, plus several other plastics. Tough bite and only managed a ew small ones. Talked to another basser at the end o the day who had better luck almost entirely on cranks.

      Tips: try craw colored cranks. On the cloudy days the topwater bite will oten keep up or a long time.

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-ished and ished the Hook tourney..Saturday was overcast all day, ishing was good considering we had never ished that area o the Delta beore..We launched out o Orwood and headed or Disco Bay..Fished there or about 1.5 hrs catching nothing but dinks..Headed up Old River stopping and ishing several o the islands and numerous tule banks..Still nothing but dinks..Tried buzzers early, then tried cranking and spinners..Caught most ish on Senkos..Tried jigs also, but had no takers..Sunday or the Tourney tried several areas where we at least had caught ish and managed to bring in three keepers (and that is all they were), no size too them at all..Had one that I would have guesstimated at between 6 and 8 pounds ollow a spinner, but didn't hit it..Just took a close look and swam o..Oh well..
      City: San Jose, CA

      Tips: I don't know what you have to do to catch big ish in this area, but I am going to keep trying and hopeully catch them next time..