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      Water Temp: 50M

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my guy launched out of ladds. went directly to FRANKS tract. CAUGHT ONE TWO POUNDER on a black jig and a three on small red crank. Fished every thing else Franks, but nothing more. Frustrated, he headed for Big Break [at about 1000 miles an hour] hit boat wake that darn near bounced my thirty pound frame right out of the boat. Nothing in Big Break, but finished limit in Sherman. Two pound males black jigs. Can't wait till he takes me fishing again.
      City: weedpatch

      Tips: If your not catching, hang in there. Its going to break wide open any day. [Jim, the Border Collie.]

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I have a question. I will be in town around the 20th and I wondering what would be the most productive way to fish (bass) the Delta during that time. Thanks for your help should you chose to give it.
      City: Philadelphia

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      Water Temp: 54_58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south west delta flippin slow jigs and worms not even a tap,tried all cover combos.Moved twords italian slough nothing.Went to disco bay trough cranks on points caught 4 in 30 min then tide stoped and so did the fish!Whats up with the fish?This is not usual for me i catch fish mostly flippin but no luck two trips in a row!
      City: union city

      Tips: bang rocks with cranks fish pionts in slow current

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      Water Temp: 54 - 57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got the boat tuned, took it out in the afternoon out of Orwood. south was very muddy - went to central delta, water was maginally clearer in pockets out of current. Fished inside weedlines, outside, thru weeds - zero. tried slo roll spinnerbaits, jigs, worms - finally started throwing rattletraps (noise) and caught two - stripers. This makes the second skunk trip in a row. Think i'm ready to try a lake..
      City: belmont

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1 dink fish form tulies on colorado spinnerbait. Day was slow. E-mail me about float tube tournament coming up. want some facts/tips
      City: pa

      Tips: slow presentation

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 1-29-00 nothing hapening up the main arm,went to the island in warm springs,picked up 7 from 1-4:30. no size, 1 3/4lbs. shakin darter heads in 17-20 ft. 1-30-00 wet & cold & windy. shakin again picked up 4 all day , weather made the fish suspend. 2 better fish on the point at the public ramp.3lbs.&2 1/2lbs.

      Tips: shake 6 in. worms in 17-25 ft, on main lake points. color didnt seem to matter right now . just fish real slow. fish each spot through 2 or 3 times.

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: check 1
      City: folsom

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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched at holland and headed for the old river then later whisky. was able to find them in slow water working rip rap, eddy currents and particularly obvious wood stumps, branches and the like. check rocks and structure that will allow them to hold in position without much effort. used soft plastics, and small cranks to entice them on. total boated, nine with the largest being about 3 pounds. i checked mildred for stripers and found none. came off the water at 2pm.
      City: El Cerrito

      Tips: 4 inch plastic worms in motor-oil color with small split shot or bass'in assassins in natural color patterns. very slow presentation using slight twitches. hits are slight so you need to concentrate. also try small cranks with short bursts of movement near backwater tulies. use soft water lure-entry presentations to avoid splashes that spook. found them at depths from 4 to 8 feet. tight lines!!

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      Water Temp: unknow

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The wife and I came out of Buckly launch and ran 30sec up river and stayed on the spot from 8 to 1 and landed 17 stripers and bigest 6lb all good fighters.Went back sunday and landed 7 stripers and boated biger fish this day bigest fish weight in at 12lb 14oz fish in 25ft of water.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Drop spoon that all their is to it and hang on.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Holland-Riverside last Fri and again on Tues. Tried cranking in various parts of old river down to Victoria. Only got two sqeakers on a red Poes 300. Both hit very lightly. Tried again on Tues, but got zilched until I went into Disco Bay for stripers. Trolled broken back rebels in either white/red head or chrome/blue back. The chrome seams to work better. If I marked bigger fish, I would stop and drop a spoon....tried everything I had...hopkins, castmaster pirk minnows in blue or chartreus , and prism image in either chrome/black or chrome/blue. The chrome/blue prism image was the only one that got bit...about a 3#. Gut hooked a cat and another small one, Then I hooked what I thought was a whale...it ran about 50yds before I could turn it... Turned out to be a tail hooked 10#er...oh well!!!!!!! Got two more trolling that were 6# and 8#.......a nice day!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Starboard bay (I think its the third one in) had more shad and stripers than the other bays.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: City: Tracy

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Orwood - blackies were not cooperating in the morning. Still trying figure out the tide/season/clarity/temp thing. just. one dink. went to disco, saw Dee thomas leaving (maybe this was a sign?) ran into Mayday and Wife. Spooned until my arms felt like they were going to fall off. Tried everything - can't figure out how we could slay them two days earlier, then do squat two days later.. Decided to run upriver, did much better. Had three blacks to 3 lbs. Mayday got himself four, I think, and a very nice 4#er. Also caught scads of schoolie stripers to 3#. Nice end to a nice (weather-wise) day.
      City: belmont

      Tips: warmer water.. mudy

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Big Break and didn'tget into fish for a couple of hours.Then the bite was steady for a couple of hours.The key was moving water andfishing baby brush hogs tight to cover.Most fish were in 6 to 8' of water.Gorgeous day on the water! Most fish were 2+#snd we got a couple of 3's and one 4+.pUMPKINSEED WAS THE COLOR AND THE HOGS were the only thing we got bit on although we tried a host of other offerings.See you on the water.....
      City: Napa

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Orwood w/TonyC. Started after blackies they were hard to find. Caught a couple on rattletraps on submerged islands, released them at the boat :-) - one would probably have gone at least 5 - oh well. After noon caught up Big Daddy in Disco - he told us where to go, along with a loaner Duh spoon - sure enough, found some stripers and caught a few, inc. a couple of sevens and five. Beautiful day to be out on the water. Got off by 2pm to finish xmas shopping!
      City: belmont

      Tips: Striper season baby! Hopkins & Duh spoons for stripers. Look for LARGE boomerangs on the depth finder. Found them outside of bait schools in deeper water - bite turns on and off randomly, so keep trying.

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      Water Temp: COLD!!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of big break marina today until 1:00. Got there at about 6:00 but soon found out we left the keys to the boat at home.My dad drove home picked up the keys and we were fishin by 7:20. Got one largemouth first thing that went about 4# on a small speedtrap. Drove to sherman and caught 4 stripers on speedtraps & rattletraps.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched out of Wimpy's and fished Beaver,Hog and sycamor. Caught fish cranking outside weed-line and on spinnerbait slow-rolled, also outside weed-line. No flip fish. Whats the deal I haven't been able to flip any the last three times out.

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday, 12/13 and Tuesday, 12/14, with son, John, out of Herman & Helen

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      Water Temp: 52 -53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry about being so late with my report...Fished Thursday of last week..Fishing on main river current breaks was excellent for us...our best 5 went 29lbs ...7 fish limit was around 32 or 33..broke my personal best with a 13.01 pig...and several other quality fish...friday put out some more good fish to 9lbs..though the bite tightened up a bit and put them in slower water with the front that moved in. All but a couple fish were cought in 8 to 10" of water...Points with rock...close to deep water...Payed close attention to water movement and eddies...I sent some pics in. see ya Dave
      City: San Jose

      Tips: 3/8 jigs stuck good fish..as well as medium diving cranks.

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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Foggy, had to idle through the fog. But once it cleared was very nice. The fishig was slow for us. Our fish came from rock banks with scattered tule clumps with deep water. We seemed to need 13-18 feet at the boat when we were 10 feet from shore. Two days turned up only seven keepers for 16lbs. Got beat by a team with a 24lbs. (9lb. Kicker).
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: The guys who one it said they threw craw cranks. We used medium diver shad frenzy. Speed traps in shad and Chartruese.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out w/hooksttr to prefisch walton's and to take advantage of day off. found decent qty in eddies and current seams. Best 7 might have gone 12# or so. plastics, jigs, cranks all worked. location seemed to matter more than anything else. look for warmer water.
      City: belmont

      Tips: slow down