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Monday, February 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: It's been real good. Today another 3.5 with 2 2's and a bunch of keepers. Started catchin some smaller fish only because we got blown off the points and were forced to fish shallower. Still a real strong bite despite the wind. It's fishin like March in Feb!

    Tips: Best fish were in deeper water. 3/8 min for the windy water. See yall next weekend...unless...

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 53.5-56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Orowood due to the wind. I fished a 1/4 delta craw speed trap most all morning got a 3.5 and 4.5 right away than some small one 1-2.5lbs about 9 for the day. Bite was pretty good when the tide was falling but on the incoming the bite slowed. The better fish the last few days have come on the pause or a deflection and only little ones on the straight retrieve. It was hard to cast with a 37 mph wind today I fished a lot of new stuff and the fish were on the leeward side. And near deeper water the fish aren't up in the slot yet.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Yesterday we got 20 throwing white, wht/cht, red/blk and it didn't seem to matter what color the bait was you had to hit something.

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    Water Temp: 54-55.5 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: It's been almost 2 months since I've been out on the river, launched from Orwood and fished from there until the mouth of kellog creek, struggled quite a bit, caught 3 on a jig to 2 lbs, in about 3 hours, motored back to orwood and started with a a 1/4 oz. speed trap and caught 7-8 fish in the last 1/2 hour to 3.5 lbs, a little pause now and then on the retrieve triggered them.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Hell if I know, just throw until something works.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 3:45 p.m. launch until dark with 7 keepers, best 3.5 lbs. No giants but all were good fish. A couple of 2 pounders as well.Red color around the mouth...hmmm.Not sure why. The 3.5 had a belly of eggs. It was like 70 something degrees outside. Saw guys fishin/scouting for beds.Incomming tide.Been catchin em in all tide conditions.On fire with 7 fish in 2 hours!Git em!

    Tips: All my fish came on points with good dropoffs to 15 feet and current. Texas riggin plastic with 3/8 weight to get it deep. Jig did get me 2 but most action came driftin the plastic.Bass bite is hot if you can find em.Don't overlook the deeper/faster water.The fish are there.Good luck!

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    Water Temp: 54.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Absolutely beautiful day on Disappointment Slough. (7 am till noon) Fishing not so great. One small bass and one small striper on red/black/yellow Rat-L-Trap. Tried up close to the tullies. Tried outside the weedlines. Tried spinnerbaits, Senkos, jigs, creatures etc. Nada. The one bass did come out of the tullies so maybe they are beginning to move up. Had fun anyway.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Gotta keep your lines wet....

Friday, February 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 54-56.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Only had 4 bites for three fish, Big fish was a 7.5 on a crank bait the other two fish were 3.? and a 2.0 found lots of fished stacked up in the mouths of marinas, and deeper water say 20' but couldnt get them to do anything.

    Some more sun light and these fish will move right up on the bank. The day before we went out the pond was pushing out huge weights.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: Slow down, look for deepwater access, fish the points. Pay very close attention to water temp!

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Mildred Island area, rip bait and lipless cranks caught fish at tule points and islands.
    City: holt

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

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    Water Temp: iritating

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3/4 to 1 oz rattle trap,(with giant hooks) should do the trick. (any color)
    City: sac

    Tips: throw it past her head and RIPPPPPPPPPP!

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Guide trip up north, should have known it would be too muddy for the smallies. But we tried anyway "none" However we did venture into a couple of marina at the end of steamboat and caught a few largemouth. 2 on a wht/green radar 10, 1 on a chrome speed trap and one on a persuader spinnerbait. the fish were 1.5 to 2. lbs
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Hidden harbor was the best one all the way in the back. Some guy tried to run me out saying it was a private marina. I informed that was impossible (verified w/the sheriff later that day) The guy was slinging the f word around, then frustrated he told his wife and she came down and started throwing rocks. Wak O..! I told her she was whacked out. Hidden Harbor right at the mouth of Steamboat and the main river just up from Rio Vista. Stop in and say hi! :-) I will post a pic of the Wak O

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Wimpy's at 7:30 AM and found some clear water at Sycamore's tule islands. Caught 7 fish to 5lbs most on black jig with red trailer swimming it near tules and over weeds tops. Windy points produced biggest fish. Quit about noon.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Caught most fish 2-3 feet from tules on windy/current sides. Targeted tule points and breaks.

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    Water Temp: 53ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Targeted flooded islands and FINALLY got on some fish, they are definitely starting to stage. Caught all our fish on a chrome /red rattletrap. All fish were caught in wind blown banks, couldn't buy a fish with no chop on the water. Fished from 11:00 to 5ish, tide was filling to slack. Boated 7 fish to 3 pounds, 5 keepers, 3 smalls for about 10 pounds. Fished the south.
    City: Hayweird

    Tips: Flooded islands out of river channels and red w/ chrome traps.

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Late post but launched bout 9:30 a.m.Tried rocks banks and weeds up close and found no fish there. Wind/rain real strong. Found some shelter and fish a dropoff in current and caught 5 in 45 mins.2 pound was biggest but the rest were keepers cept 1. Only spent 2 and a half hours...weather bad...fishin good.

    Tips: I suggest goin often now. Temps are right and the fish that are on those points now will be movin up soon. Yeah...gettin a little muddy so make a little noise. Good luck.

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    Water Temp: 50.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out B&W fished our waty to Franks and Mildred. Tried dropshotting some tules with small ledges picking up one fish on an arons' magic fat worm. Made our way back to Franks hitting a few fish on Voo-Doo baits in the delta pattern. We were targetting shallow tule coves. The reaction bite is definately starting to turn on, talking to a couple other guys and they agreed with having success on blades and ripbaits.
    City: Folsom

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: One person guide trip for an Elite angler we mostly looked around but stopped to fish a couple of times. Got three fishing for about two hours total. One on speed trap crystalcraw, one on a brn jig and one one a bomber red/blk and missed one on the bomber. The fish were on the edge to deep water with a little current and all were near 2 lbs
    City: Martinez

    Tips: We didn't fish very slow however I think more fish would have been caught if you slowed down with the cold water. It's nice to catch a couple of fish after Havasu.....!!!

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of paradise, seemed like we had the delta pretty much to ourselvs. fished various spots from there into the south delta. stained water all over with visibility of a foot or less. nice to see water temps starting to come up, 50* was the lowest we saw. still kind of slow. big beaver (a real one) came crashing out of the vines right next to the boat at one location, scared the **** out of us. pretty windy in the larger open areas made boat positioning challenging. fun day
    City: Sonora

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46-49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Finaly got a reaction bite things will breaak loose soon.blades/rip/swim
    City: B and W

    Tips: colorado blades slow

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 47.1-48.4

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got in the water around 10. Only had a couple of hours.Wanted to see if it was better than last week. A couple of things. I had some bugs around my face. Good. Oh and now there is some grass( not much) on my line when I brought it up.Also good. Wasn't long after I started think about how good those two things are and POW! 2 pounder!
    City: East Bay

    Tips: The winter is soon over and the fish ARE biting NOW. The water is going to get real muddy soon and temps are commin up. NOW is a great time to cash in on some easier to catch now than later fish. Bugs, grass, fish!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished franks tract all day and caught a couple of little fish. tried everything from fishing shallow to slowing down and fishing deeper around the outside of franks. the bite is veruy tough. i can't wait until the bite gets good in about a month.

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Same pattern as last week with the jig and drop shot. Only this week had smaller fish, but more of em'.. Really struggled trying to find a decent bite that never happened. Pair of 3's and some 2ish lb fish was all we could muster up. 17 in the boat, best five about 12lbs, maybe.
    City: Tracy

Monday, January 29th, 2007

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    Water Temp: FREEZING 45.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: BAD BAD BAD...fished Sun & Mon only 1 stipper between Holland & Franks on a Levy rock wall right as a seal passed by...Disco no good couldnt even mark fish...lots of dinker hits but nothing serrious...tune up the lures and boat git readi for March and spawn bit to git ya bit...stay home this weekend and watch the super bowl bout the only excitin thang on the Delta now...best of luck to all else
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: stay warm, get ready for spring...pray for spawning and summer again