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Saturday, June 21st, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hi all, I also launched from Paradise last week, and headed north from there. Throwing top water everywhere, I landed a few dinks around whites. Headed farther north to find muddy water in the river. So decided to get to clearer water in the backs of sloughs. Did much better, landing three 3lbers in a row. And a few smaller ones on the exit of Sycamore. I fished spinnerbait on tulies heading back south in that muddy water and only managed a couple dinks. It got super windy. I had to shut it down because it wasn't fun anymore...lol
      "I'll be back"

      Tips: Stay positive. Have lots of fun..!!

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 76.6° - 76.9°

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early at Paradise, low outgo maybe an hour from bottom low tide. Since it was low tide, followed Steve Cooper's low tide guidance and stayed out in deeper water and casting in and retrieving over outer weedline and ledges. Picked up a few 12"ers and 1lbers on hula popper initially and changed to a poppin' frog when we got to surface veg. Also managed a few on wacky stick baits (6" strike king ocho and 5" senko, green pumpkin/blue flk and junebug) Brother picked up a few on t-rigged baby brush hog with 1/8oz pegged bullet sinker.
      Alternated between rock wall and tule islands and continued to pick up mostly juveniles and a few 1lbers, nothing over 2lbs. Worked the plastics slow casting to rock wall and working over weedline and letting drop at the ledge...most bites came at the ledge.
      Decent day but wished they were interested in cranks and chatterbaits...zip, zero, nada on those two. Managed a couple schoolie stripers on the jerkbait. Still a fun low tide morning. Thanx to Steve for his latest low tide overview vids Parts I and II.

      Tips: Not qualified to give tips but here's what worked for us:
      - hula popper, very subtle twitches
      - poppin' frog (snag proof) (white)
      - baby brush hog / 1/8 oz bullet pegged, t-rig
      - dropshot , junebug
      - t-rigged and wacky stick baits, crawled them from the wall, through the trough, and over weedlines, then drop at the ledge... bit at the ledge.

      hope this helps...most of the pros and experts have their proven methods and locations, so this likely doesn't matter to them. But for anyone scratchin' their heads or just lookin' for options, the above worked for us on a tough low tide bite.

Friday, May 30th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: Fishing Report Trends for May Evening Bites on The Delta
      Bite tough, needed a big bite to separate. Most teams reporting limits under 16 lbs.
      Mid-month was a “funky bite” for most. Drop-shot produced the WWN biggest fish (8.16). Many teams only weighed 4 fish.
      By end of month, conditions improved, bites came from grass flats, punch rigs, frogs, and shad imitators (buzzbait).

      Across May as a whole, slower finesse tactics (drop-shot, flipping, dragging plastics) consistently produced keepers, while reaction bites (frog, buzzbait, glide) delivered the kickers. Tough but improving bite, big fish every week, and 20+ lbs required to win WWN

Sunday, May 25th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: California Delta Fishing Report – May
      By Bearded Bassin’ – from Windy Wednesday Nighter Episode Three 2025 @BeardedBassin (Watch on YouTube)

      Good weather. Fishing described as “funky” — needed to slow way down

      Techniques
      Early success came when Pops connected with a five-pounder while they were literally on the phone arranging a tow.
      Punch rig and frog accounted for several keeper bites.
      Fish were caught on shallow grass flats and around grass patches, including a solid upgrade late.
      One key bite came on a drop-shot for another team, producing the tournament’s big fish (8.22 lbs).

      Tournament Spotlight
      Phil & Aaron — 21.38 (all solid 4–5 lb fish, no single big fish)
      Wyatt & Maddie — 17.53 (Big Fish 8.22, drop-shot)
      Robert & Dylan — 17.10 (Second Big Fish 6.45)

      Weights are trending upward: more limits in the 16–17 lb range, and one bag breaking 20 lbs.
      The difference-maker continues to be landing a big bite over 5 lbs to separate from the pack.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First day out after being out of the area for a couple weeks on vacation. Took a little time to figure out what the fish were doing but as the tide got higher the top water bite was consistent above the weeds on the flats. Fish were relating to current cuts and were subtly taking the bait vs blowing up and hitting it hard. Overall good day with about 16 pounds for the best 5. Always fun to catch them on top. TIDAL CA Delta Fishing

Monday, May 19th, 2025

  • Lake County
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      Report: Clear Lake Fishing Report – May 19

      Current Bite & Conditions:
      Clear Lake is producing solid limits with fish holding around docks, tulles, and ambush points. Cloud cover early in the morning helped the bite, but once the sun rose, the action slowed. Protected areas out of the wind proved most productive, especially coves with multiple dock slips. Clear Lake continues to deliver mixed patterns, with docks, tulles, and shallow vegetation all producing. Reaction bites with the LV 500 and swimbaits are strong early, while frog fishing in heavy cover provides explosive action later in the day.

      Best Techniques & Baits:
      Strolling / Mid-Strolling with Mooch Minnow on a 1/16-oz jig head, targeting roaming fish and docks.
      Drop Shot Rig near docks for key keeper fish.
      Lipless Crankbait: Lucky Craft LV 500, ripped hard to trigger reaction strikes in 6–10 ft of water near tulles and baitfish ambush zones.
      Swimbaits for additional quality bites.
      Frog Fishing: Black and white frogs pitched into tulles, duckweed, and hitch-rich areas. Follow-up bites came on 6” Yamamoto Senko when fish missed the frog.

      Key Depths:
      5–8 ft around docks
      6–10 ft near tulles and ambush points
      Frog bite shallow in 1–3 ft vegetation mats

      Tournament Spotlight:
      1st: Reed Frazier & Nick Doring (Quality Control) – Strolling with Mooch Minnow + Drop Shot near docks
      2nd: Drew Boles & Paul Mata (Slaughter Houze) – 101.00” (Big Fish: 23”) – LV 500 & Swimbaits
      3rd: Isaiah West & Shaun Leytem (Shisiah) – 101.00” – Frogs (black/white) + 6” Senko follow-up

      Tips: Tip of the Tournament:
      When the morning cloud cover keeps fish active, rip the LV 500 hard in 6–10 ft to trigger reaction strikes. As the sun rises and the bite slows, shift to finesse presentations under docks or throw a frog tight to tulles and duckweed. Always follow up missed frog strikes with a 6” Senko — those pressured fish will often commit the second time.

Saturday, May 17th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: Report by Lucca Rossetti
      27.34 with a 7.80 big ol' bass!!!
      Here's what Lucca said....
      We caught 'em on spinnerbaits, ChatterBaits, and Senkos in the trough by the tules and rocks.

Friday, May 16th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: California Delta Fishing Report – Windy Wednesday Nighter Week 2
      By Bearded Bassin’ – from Windy Wednesday Nighter Episode Two 2025 @BeardedBassin (Watch on YouTube)

      Weather stabilized with a light breeze. Started on low tide; incoming tide expected a couple hours later.
      Water temp low 60s. Water clarity “about the same” as prior outing.
      Early bite was slow. By 5:15 PM there was one keeper in the box and two bites in two hours. Fish were tight to the bank and often short-striking.

      Techniques
      Started with flipping baits and drag baits; Pops began with a drop-shot.
      Missed several good bites (fish wrapping in trees / not getting hooks).
      Topwater interest noted; later switched to a buzzbait (shad imitator) after seeing fish busting shad on a grass line and caught a solid keeper.
      A frog also produced a keeper (“another two-pounder frog”).
      Best bites came on shallow grass flats; a quick flurry put together a limit (“four fish in 30 minutes,” then culling).

      Top 3
      Mike & Fuge — 22.88
      Rodney & Tom — 16.98
      Phil & Aaron — 16.90

      Big Fish Awards
      1st Big Fish: AJ & Landon — 8.16 (weighed 4 fish; reported dumping another big one)
      2nd Big Fish: Jake & Dennis — 6.95 (weighed 4 fish)

      Bite described as tough across the field; many missed fish and short strikes.
      Pops & Bearded Bassin' finished with a decent limit but no >5-lb kicker; heading back to figure out adjustments for next week.

Monday, May 12th, 2025

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62 and up

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We pent the day on Clear Lake. We launched out of Red Bud. The water temp when we launched at 6:30 am was 62 degrees. We started with reaction baits, Trash Fish, spinner bait, and an underpin.We fished the docks to the south of Redbud for about an hour and got 3 catfish but zero bass. We moved over into some coves, throwing the same baits. The water was an off-green color, but at about 9 am we started looking for beds. We caught a couple 3's. The fish where acting really funny, maybe because they were so shallow. We could only see shallow beds due to time of day.Throwing a minnow around, we caught one around 5. WE kept fishing around and found a couple small fish on beds and left 'em. WE went around to the Rattlesnake arm and start throwing minnow baits around docks, a Sakamoto Shad and Sixth Sense juggle minnow and caught about 10 to 12 fish up to 3 pounds. When we ended the day the water temp was at 66, the water clarity was up to 3.5 ft and best five went 20 pounds.

Friday, May 9th, 2025

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed up to Amador to see if the bass were ready to play. Started out with a couple reaction baits to test the water and the spinner produced a great bite in the first five minutes. Finally got the fish close to the boat and was disappointed too see a big hungry 4 pound catfish. Worked all the local hotspots and deep cover to shallow shaded areas. Ended up with five total fish for the day. Bass were not aggressive as all were caught off slow fishing soft plastics. All fish were in the 2-3 pound range. It was a grind in the heat.

      Tips: Bring sun screen, something to drink, and a lot of patience. Hopefully the bite will pick up as the temperature increases over the next week or two.

  • Solano County
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      Report: California Delta Fishing Report – May
      By Bearded Bassin’ – from Windy Wednesday Nighter Episode One 2025 @BeardedBassin (Watch on YouTube)

      Calm at launch despite a forecast for 15 mph winds.
      Less than 1.5 feet visibility in some areas.
      Tough fishing. Anglers noted long stretches without bites and needing to slow down presentations.

      Techniques
      Spinnerbait and Texas rig were in play, along with the “donkey slayer” setup.
      Early action was slow — it took nearly an hour before the first bites.
      Fish were tight to the bank and short-striking baits.
      Reports of needing to drag baits slowly out from the shoreline to get consistent hookups.
      A limit eventually came, but overall size was small.

      Notable Catches
      Pops and Bearded Bassin’ managed five fish for under 9 lbs — one decent fish but mostly small keepers.
      Biggest fish weighed at the event: 9.80 lbs by Phil & Aaron (part of the winning 20.22 lb bag).
      Second biggest fish: 7.60 lbs by Crowley & Crowley.

      Tournament Spotlight – Top Weights
      Phil & Aaron — 20.22 lbs (Big Fish 9.80)
      AJ & Landon — 18.30 lbs
      Austin & Nico — 18.21 lbs
      David & Steven — 17.72 lbs

      Tips: The bite was described as one of the toughest in a long time — far fewer fish than just days prior when 20–40 fish per trip were possible.
      Postspawn conditions left many fish skinny and reluctant to chase reaction baits.
      Key to success was securing one or two big bites on top of a solid limit.
      Pops’ pre-event prediction of “20 lbs to win” proved correct, with the winners being the only team to break 20.

Monday, May 5th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: California Delta Fishing Report – May
      by Bearded Bassin' From Big Girls up Shallow and First Frog Bite of the Year

      Weather: Stable, with air temps in the high 60s to low 70s. Light breeze tapering off in the afternoons.
      Water Temp: Around 69–70°F.
      Tides: Low tide in the morning shifting to an incoming tide through the afternoon.

      Observations:
      Grass growth is improving, creating more cover.
      Many shallow beds are currently empty — likely one big spawning wave already passed on the recent full moon.
      Clear water in many areas; fish often hard to see when buried in grass.
      Noted a lot of “dead water” — areas with no activity if fish don’t show quickly.

      Best Techniques & Baits
      Frog: First solid frog bites of the year, including blowups and one landed fish. Fish are beginning to show interest in topwater.
      Bed Fishing: Sight-fished a pair (male ~3 lbs, female 6.15 lbs) using a glide bait after working them carefully.
      Soft Plastics:
      Wacky-rigged Senko — produced bites when pitched to empty beds, cruising fish picked it up.
      Weightless dart/fluke — worked well blind-casting through grass, produced a solid keeper.
      Punching: One solid fish came on a punch rig in the grass.
      Reaction: No real chatterbait/moving bait bite established yet.

      Notable Catches
      Multiple fish landed, including:
      A female bed fish weighing 6 lbs 15 oz.
      Several solid keepers on plastics and punch rigs.
      First frog fish of the year.

      Tips: Bite is improving: Delta is “starting to turn on” with fish being caught on a variety of techniques (frog, punch, glide, plastics).
      Key right now is mobility — many areas are completely dead; move quickly if bites don’t come within 10–30 minutes.
      Spawn activity is tapering; most productive fishing should soon shift toward pre- and postspawn reaction bites like chatterbaits and faster frog action.
      Tournament prep note: current patterns likely won’t hold for two weeks, but conditions signal the Delta is ready to fire.

Sunday, April 27th, 2025

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Report: I have made a trip a week for the last month. The fishing has been very good, 20 to 30 plus fish a day. Have caught fish on just about every thing you can tie on. With plastics being the method that has been catching the most fish, there are times when I’ll get fish on a crank bait 2-3 cast in a row, then nothing for a while. Pick up the plastic though and bam. The tough thing has been, how many small fish to get to a 3lb plus?

      Tips: Dead sticking has been almost essential at times, wacky rig has been very good.

Saturday, April 19th, 2025

  • Sacramento County
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      Report: by dfishing1 » Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:22 pm

      Here is my experience. Went to Beals Point at 5am. Was the 14th one in line. At 630 gate opened w the rangers. The line is split into 4 lanes, each has an inspector. At 930 inspections start. All compartments open and inspected. Done in 10 mins and on my way. Now, your quarantine is 30 DAYS from your inspection date. Mello Marine does them by appt for $50 BUT state parks is free for now. When quarantine is up you can launch after inspection and removal of quarantine tag. They say there will be inspectors at ramps during PARK hours to give your green tag at take out. Decon stations are pending and will cost upwards of $100 or more depending on your boat but will be by appointment. Be patient with the inspectors and they will get u in and out.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

  • Lake County
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      Report: Spent a week on Clear Lake
      Weather temps ranged from 44-78 degrees
      Water temps ranged from 56-61 degrees

      The fish were moving up on beds as would be expected with the big moon. Let me say hats off to all the guys who did successfully at the Open. Big fish were everywhere on the North end. I could see them in bushes and on beds, but the bed fish where super skittish due to the only ones that I could see where the ones that where less than 3 feet deep. I caught em fishing the old tule line with a 1/2 ounce spinnnerbait (white on white), a flashy swimmer with 3.8 Keitech for first hour in the morning. After the sun came up, I would start flipping a dropshot and a Missle bBait Destroyer to all the holes in the tules. After I found minor success with that, although everything seemed right, I went to forward facing mode and started catching them although it was not easy. By far, the best way to catch fish for me the last three days was throwing a Crush City boot tail strolling bait that I didn’t have to shake to get it to roll. I’m one of the guys that has fought FFS trend but it’s a dealbreaker at Clear Lake.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today fished the outgoing tide and it was slow until the tide bottomed out. Then the topwater bite fired off. The frog bite was solid at the low switch on the weed flats near spawning pockets. The key is not to spook those fish with the TM and moving through these areas at low tide is brutal. I'd chop through to areas and then power pole down and let it settle. After about 5 minutes I'd thoroghly work the area with a buzz bait and the frog. Most fish came on the frog worked very slowly and they were all quality fish 3-4.5lbs. Missed one big bite. It is a lot of work fishing this way, but the opportunity at a big bite is there. Good Fishing to All! TIDALCADeltaFishing.

Friday, April 4th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: Started in East Delta, water temperatures rising.. Water temps range from the mid-50s to low 60s, depending on location - prime spawning temperature. Some areas are experiencing clearer water, especially on outgoing tides, while others remain more stained. High tides are pushing fish into shallow cover, while low tides are concentrating them along deeper edges. Some success has been when targeting shallow areas with tules, submerged vegetation and laydowns – less on riprap. Soft plastic have been best still. Thrown everything from Senkos, creature baits, and craw imitations rigged Texas-style or on a Carolina rig.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Things are starting to get right. These next few days of warm weather will really speed up the bite. Spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday on the water focusing on central Delta (Franks, Mildred and Old River). The weather was cold in the mornings with a pretty good wind. The bite on the high tide (last part of high and the switch to outgoing) was good. Fish seemed to prefer senkos and dropshot. Tried to force feed them reaction due to the wind, but only caught smaller fish. All better bites (3-5lbs) came on flipping shallow pockets on high tide. The fish are super healthy and fat. It is getting really fun out on the river right now and will only continue to improve. Tight lines! Tidal CA Delta Fishing.

      Tips: Slow down in areas that look good. The areas where fish seemed to concentrate were pockets that had minimal weed growth surrounded by areas of thicker dense weeds. These little pockets held multiple fish and will be the same places I will start looking for the fish to spawn. When the tide drops out go look in these areas to find these pockets and then fish them on the high tide. One other area that consistently got bites was points with sparse tules and moving current.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early at Paradise; long story short, only caught 2 fish; buddy's first few casts caught an early morning keeper on a 4" jerkbait; we thought that was a sign of things to come but nope, nothing for the next 4 hours, trying everything but the kitchen sink. Decided it just wasn't a good day (we blamed it on the previous night's front/rain but we really don't know), so we headed back up Disappointment back to Paradise. We stopped and tried one of our usual islands that had a visible weedline ledge; I threw a dark red crankbait along the dropoff and hooked a heavy 2lber (almost a 3lber). That at least salvaged an uneventful day. Water was heavy stained, not sure if I'd call it muddy but well, yeah, I guess it was.... lost sight of my lure a foot down. Oh well, there's always next week and the weeks to come.

      Tips: Not qualified to give tips and definitely not from today. But I guess we just kept trying with everything we had. We didn't quit and at least got an almost 3lber. Really don't know why but oh well, kicked the skunk outta the boat for me.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

  • Solano County
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      Report: Went out on the old DirtyD this week. It was the last part of the outgoing tide and then the incoming started. The water clarity was less than a foot and the temperature ranged from 54-60.

      My plan was that I would take advantage of the low water and look around in the marinas as the full moon was coming soon. I wanted to see if there were any fish that had moved up. well after viewing 5 of my favorite spawning areas, I seen only 2 little bucks as I was pulling out of one of the marinas. I found a pretty good school of stripers on my Lowrance FFS so I spent about a hour catching them on a ripbait.

      Back to the bass. I threw a chatterbait and a crankbait where I thought they where gonna be but nothing happened. I started throwing a 5inch wacky rig Senko and caught one little guy. I made a run West where the water was higher and found a tree in the middle of the slough with the FFS. I caught 2 bass,1 stripper and a crappie all out of that same tree. The Delta is pretty tough for me right now.