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California Delta By Fishing the Dleta Feb 10 From a Day on the Water with Christian Ostrander A light breeze and a high tide made for a textbook Delta setup. The bite has been lining up perfectly with one specific window: high tide right as it starts to dump out. "That high-outgoing stretch has been the deal lately, and if you time it right, you can stay on fish all day by chasing that tide," he said. "You can follow it inward toward the Delta, push south, then slide west, basically tracking the same high-outgoing bite as it progresses through the system." His approach has been a mix of reaction baits and shallow-water power fishing. Christian and Riley spent the day rotating through spinnerbaits, ChatterBaits, and some worm fishing, with an emphasis on darker colors for early spring - June bug, black and blue. "You know, the kind of stuff that shows up strong when the water is warming but the fish are still in that pre-spawn mindset," he said. On the ChatterBait, he has been keeping it simple with a Spunk Shad trailer. For the spinnerbait, he is running big willow blades and a single-tail grub, bumping it around the tules. His main spinnerbait color has been a white-and-chartreuse pattern, and it has been producing in both cleaner water and slightly dirtier stretches. Water clarity has been mixed, but not blown out. Christian pointed out that it has not been “crazy dirty” this year, and the lack of rain is a big reason why. Even without checking the exact temp on the day, he said it has been hovering right around 53 to 54 degrees, and the fish are acting like it is already spring. He has been catching them extremely shallow, three-feet of water or less, and he believes the biggest fish are already up doing what they do this time of year: feeding hard and positioning to spawn early. "They are not beat up yet, but they are close enough that it could happen any time, especially with the way conditions are going," he said. In just three hours on the water, the quality backed it up. Christian estimated his and Riley's best five fish would have gone around 27-pounds, and he topped the day with a true Delta giant pushing nine and a half pounds. "That big fish came on a worm bite," he said. Christian has been throwing a lot of Trick worms lately, and described the big fish as thick and aggressive, with just enough belly to show it has been eating. "When the tide gets high, those big fish want to feed, and once the water starts moving out, they will absolutely crush anything that gets near them," he added. The day was not just about one fish either. Riley stuck her own six-pounder, also on a worm presentation. "This is an early spring, and an early spring on the Delta usually means a good year," said Christian. "When the Delta goes off in early February, it tends to stay productive all season long." If this trip was any indication, the big ones are already moving, the shallow bite is happening, and the Delta is officially waking up.
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Clear Lake By Clear Lake Fishing Report Early February 2026 With Fisherman's Warehouse pro Ken Mah Clear Lake right now, is in a late winter phase. In the morning, the water temps are 49 degrees, so still pretty cold, but in the shallow part, in the north end of the lake, I saw temps as warm as 53 degrees. As we know, there was a local tournament that was won there recently, and they had 45 or 47 pounds. So, there's still a lot of big fish being caught, scoping, and a lot of those anglers are spending their time in mid-lake and the Rattlesnake Arm. People can still catch those fish. Those fish are the ones – the few that I caught scoping yesterday. They seem to be in 18- to 22- to 23-feet. I had a pretty good day fishing shallow. There's little pods of fish that are starting to move up and they're making that first initial push. I probably had close to 25- to 26-pounds yesterday, fishing in like 8-feet or less. For me, it was simple fishing, like throwing a half-ounce or 5/8-ounce spinnerbait with a Big Bite Swimmer on the back of it – a white one. And then just reeling that thing as slow as I can. I'm throwing it on a 7.5-foot, Poenix, Virtus frog rod with Shooter fluorocarbon. I caught like three on a spinnerbait doing that. They were really nice – healthy ones. The biggest one I caught was almost five-pounds and then the other two were good four-pounders, just solid fish. Then, I started flipping isolated bushes in 6- to 8-feet of water. I caught four fish doing that, but I only caught seven shallow yesterday – basically, with my MLF setup, a Buckeye flipping jig in black and blue with a Big Bite Baits Baby YoMama trailer on braided line. It's really simple fishing. I do think you can scope a lot of fish and throw a minnow on a jig head, but for me, I think there's less people on the bank, which I love. So, I'm still going to gravitate and do that.

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