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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..

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This is not a report on a single day I have just had some good luck on a particular bait. Zara Spook. I don't normally catch big ish however last week I caught an 8.5 and 2 days ago i got another 8. I have been getting lots o quality ish 3-4 by ishing this on the out sides o the weed beds. Any way give it a try.
      City: Discovery Bay

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: pt in at paradise point marina at irst light and went to one o my ew spots i know hold ish and started catching little ones to 12 inches righ o the bat on shad color senkos. moved in search o big ish and could not seem to locate any. tried senkos cranks rogs spinners and buzzbaits so i decided to go exploring and ound mysel in the deep water channel by stockton. ound a ew ish by someones nice house but there were a lot o waves so i went back in to whites slough. i went back to my irst stop o the morning and tossed my brwn and chart jig and irst cast got a 4.5lber. that was it o the water at 11 about 14 ish all day only one good one.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: any suggestions would be great still learning the water. senko always catch litte ish

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We had a tough bite today. Not suprising with the cooler temps and blue sky. We worked around Franks and Fisherman's Cut and only boated 9 or 10. Lost two more at the boat. As usual, we can always count on senko's or some small ish. But our better bites came on wht/chrt spinner baits ished across tule points and slow rolled (6-10 eet) along the outside weed line. Didn't get a single blade bite on rock walls. Blade ish were all in the 2 - 2 1/2 lb class, nothin real big. Had our or ive blow ups on rogs ishing a mat around 11. They seemed smaller than the norm and we didn't hook any o em.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: Fish are in the current.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Folsom Bass Team's annual TOC was this Last weekend. 30.22 lbs won the 1 1/2 day event. The big ish o the event was caught by the winning team. at 12.19 lb's. the Second Place bag was just over 26 lbs.
      City: Roseville

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      Water Temp: 70-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the main san joaquin north o turner cut..rip rap banks....killed them on natural shad senkos in the morning...had 20 ish by 7 am but all 11/2-2 lbs but it was great...switched to a 12 inch junebug worm and caught some 3's...my buddy eric came out to meet me so we headed out to mildred or the aternoon and evening...had a nice incoming and ished some coves o the main lake...no wind at all....mildred was a mirror...i like a little wind when ishing buzzbaits and the action wasnt ast but we got some quality ish.....eric got a 5.2...i got a 4.8 and we got 4 more rom 2.5 to 3.5...the sunset was unreal and a ull moon rising..in 30 yrs ishing the delta i think it was the prettiest night ive seen...watched that rocket out o vandenburg blow up too..this buzzbait bite this early all and late summer has been a blast or me..got a 10.1 in whiskey on a buzzer and that was awesome...had some huge blowups in mildred on the buzzers that missed...think they were big stripers....also caught a ew small striprs v-jigging white spoons in the main river under birds....wont be long and the big pig stripers will be in and i will love jiggin them up....good luck...cya out there....all the huge yaught cruiser wakes are a bitch....i wish they'd go to the ocean where they belong lol
      City: union city

      Tips: buzzbaits all day long and big worms are working or me....pitching the tules with the worm and riding the weedlines with the buzzer with a senko to ollow up short strikers....try some vertical jigging or stipers its awesome....i paint a hal ounce jigging spoon white and ind schools on my inder or search or birds.....many orty striper days coming

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hello can anyone out there tell me how to get to big break rom elk grove, also would like to know how long it will take to get there. planning to go this weekend. thank you
      City: elk grove

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to paradise point on tuesday looking or some rog ish. got on the water about 3 pm with no action in whites. went out to main chanel and picked up some small ish till about 5 and return to whites to inish o my evening. i must o had 25 blow ups on a white rog, but could only land 5. best one going 4 lbs. i anyone has any ino i would appreciate it or i am new to the area.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: whites slough was good in evening on rogs

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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: About the striper ishing between Pittsburg and Antioch I have benn picking up stripers to about 15lbs every trip,Throwing traps and trolling.Fish seem to be better size on the incoming tide ind good current and keep throwing your lure.I will be ocusing more on the west delta as they get in the system more and more they seem to stay around that area a lot longer.Fish on..............
      City: pittsburg

      Tips: Throw traps and then throw more,In clear water such as the west delta throw shad type lures

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday and Monday mornings..Tried a little bit o ecverything except rogging..Caught ish on Senkos and spinnerbaits..Fished Taylor Slough..Worked the holes and pockets in the weeds at low tide..
      City: San Jose, CA