Fishing Report

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Thursday, March 20th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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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, California
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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.

  • Lake County, California
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      Report: Reed Fraziers day was equivalent to 38 Pounds as he had two fish over 9 Pounds anchoring his bag! Close behind him with an honorable limit of 103.50” was Joseph Silva! Both anglers were utilizing their live scope and a Crush City “Mooch Minnow” to bring home a well deserved finish! They targeted cruising fish in 10-20 feet of water, and utilized Sniper Marine “Scout Poles” to keep their Garmin LiveScope on the fish. Pestering them with a 3/32 ounce rangeroller, Reed found the winning fish! Soda Bay seemed to be the ticket for a lot of anglers in this event!

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Report: by Mark Lassagne from BAM » Sat Mar 08, 2025 7:25 pm
      Super fun day on the Delta yesterday- 25-30 with a few good ones mixed in. River2Sea biggie, Chatter and Senkos did the damage. Different area today so we’ll see how different it is.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished central delta and found the best quality fish holding in sparse tules on the flats. Today we caught fish with spinnerbaits and senkos. The spinnerbait is perfect for this time of year when the fish love to stage in the sparse tules before moving shallower to spawn. The spinnerbait is awesome to bounce through the tules and most the strikes come after hitting the tules. The chatterbait is good too but gets hung up a lot more and the spinnerbait rarely gets snagged. The 6" senko caught the biggest fish which was a 4.8. Fun fishing right now! Tidal CA Delta Fishing

      Tips: Today the key was sparse tules on flats.

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Report: From Damian Thao: John and I practiced the day before but I had found fishing tough; however, John was hammering them with tubes and jigs. On the tournament day (March 1) the fish changed up and wanted the bait pulled up hill with a Neko Rigged Senko in Green Pumpkin. I couldn’t get bit pulling it downhill so I moved shallow and was able to trigger the bass into biting. Also, during practice the fish didn’t want the spoon but during tournament day, the fish wanted the spoon. I caught several nice fish on the spoon during the tournament. I had found a huge school of big fish that were competing for the spoon which made the fish easier to catch. I was fishing from10 to 30 feet deep. It was nice to find that huge school of big fish with my forward-facing unit. It was quick and fast once I had found the mega school of fish. The cadence of the spoon was a slow pull once the spoon was near the fish. The fish were schooled up tight so the bites were fast once the lure was near the fish.

      From Dustin Brown: I caught around 40 fish using bottom contact lures but most were in the 15-to-16-inch range.I did catch one that went 19.50” in the back of a cove. I decided to start in the cove where I had caught that 19.50” bass. I started about half was back into that cove and caught 7 fish total during the tournament hours. I tried to catch those fish that were in the back of the cove but they were not willing to bite. I was using my forward-facing unit and could see the school of fish but they just didn’t want to bite. My partner was fishing a different part of the lake and had lost a few fish on the chatter bait and other bottom bouncing baits.

Friday, February 28th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Never left Franks Tract today and slowed way down. Caught 17-18lbs with all fish coming on 6" Senkos. Started the day targeting outside edge tules thinking the big girls would be feeding up in preparation to move shallow. Caught a few fish on the outer edge, but the quality was not great. Low tide hit and decided to move shallow to look around. Water was still too stained. to see any beds, BUT long casting the Senko to the edges of old dormant mats started to produce regular bites of quality fish. As the tide switched and started to come in the bite was consistent flipping to the old edges. These bass were in pockets with sand and hard bottoms. These areas are easy to find when you notice the weed growth at low tide goes away and leaves clean pockets. Wishing you good fishing! Tidal CA Delta Fishing.

      Tips: Get behind the tules and look for shallow pockets with harder sandy bottoms. The bass will move into these pockets over the next couple months and they will provide a consistent bite. Start on the outer staging edges and move shallow until you find the fish and then SLOW down and pick apart the areas. There's a real chance of hooking a giant.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: So as always the Delta is a fickle place, and going out to try and duplicate the outing can be a challegne, but had to give it a go. Fishing was tought. It was a small tide and started fishing all the same areas as last time. Besides a couple days difference, so a little change in the tide timing, there was warmer water temps. Flipped a jig most of the day. I know this time of the year it should be a great bait to catch a giant on, but it did not pay off today. Started tossing around a Senko when the water got up, later in the day to save getting skunked! Got a couple no more than 3 pounds.

      Tips: Takeaways - don’t get stuck on a technique! Water is warming. Starting to see a couple of blooms, so we all know wat that means the fish will be on the move.

Thursday, February 20th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55 give or take

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent part of the day on the Delta. When I went out, he tide was high and water temps varied from 52 to 57. The water clarity varied but the Central looked the best and it’s where I caught all my fish. I flipped a jig all day caught 6 fish all over 3.5lbs and the big going over 5 pounds. All fish came in the first row of tules. It was actually the furthest tully point sticking out. The high water seemed to be the key for me because after the tide moved out about 1/2 way, I could not buy a bite. I targeted outside of spawning areas where they will be.

      Tips: Jigs, jigs and more jigs.

Monday, February 3rd, 2025

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Report: Did anyone loose an important piece of fishing equipment at lake McClure this weekend? I found something on the way to barrettes cove launch. Let me know if I found someone’s lost equipment.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2025

  • Santa Barbara County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What's up every one this should be a first of many reports . Let's get to it .

      Bank fisherman have reported to me 1 -3 fish a day varying from 2lb stock trout to keeper bass and 4lb average catfish. During January.

      Boat anglers

      Bite has been consistent on all species with most angler targeting trout stock and bass .

      Trout bite seems to be 1-5 fish for most boat. With most days being 2-3 fish.

      Trout have been everywhere 0-25ft. With hot spots being near Clark canyon and cachuma hay.


      Bass have been consistent in 20-40ft
      Drop shot is king. With the jig and underspin bite being day to day. Also if you know what your doing on ffs you can have large numbers of 1-2lbs fish schooling . Other reactions bites available but may be hard to get many bites or a keeper limit .

      Aba January 2025 took 16lbs to win. With the average being 10/13lbs for 5 fish limits .

      Crappie. Bite is tough but biting . If you know what your doing your rolling in them. If not you catch 1 a day by accident .

      Book a trip on lake cachuma with me.
      fishwithjeff.net
      @fishwithjeff

      Tips: Drop shot, jig, underspin. Fish deeper and keep bottom contact . Find rock. And fish where your confident.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Updated: Started early at Paradise; only came down to get an annual pass and test my new cluster gauges; outgoing low tide at 6am, very calm, not as cold as we thought we'd be. Idled around close to the marina waiting for it to open. Threw jerkbaits (90 and micro size), nothing. Senko/stickbaits/shakeyheads, nothing. Dropshot, nothing. Spinnerbait, nothing. A-rig, nothing. As it got lighter, we realized the water was really stained. Got my annual pass and ran down to main channel; water was just as stained ... about a foot visibility. Tried everything again, nothing. Duck hunters were having a great morning though! Brought back memories. Rode around looking for clearer water but all the same. Ran up to King's but fog was rolling in thick. Worked our way back to Paradise on the inside rockwall of Disappointment...water all the same, stained. Still, I accomplished what I came down for, annual pass and gauges confirmed. Still had a good time just being on the water and casting lures! Went home, flushed the motor/boat, livewell (didn't fill with delta water but still flushed it anyway), and bilge (ran pump with fresh water). Will do exterior next day..kinda tired.

      Tips: Not qualified to give tips, but I'd say if you're hankerin' to fish, just go if the weather's decent. We figured we just didn't have good conditions and timing in the areas we tried. But we'll still keep trying. Never know what the next trip's conditions will be. You likely will do better!!

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Report: by cruizer » Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:27 pm

      New Melones is open for fishing 8am to 4pm "ONLY IF YOUR BOAT WAS RED TAGGED AND YOUR BOAT WAS QUARANTINED 30 DAYS AGO". I drove up from San Jose to get a red tag on my boat so I can start fishing 2/7/25 to get ready for tournament in March. TUTTLETOWN LAUNCH IS CLOSED TFN. Glory Hole is the only launch open, Rangers are parked at ramp checking you in and out. Please don't take your frustrations on Rangers, they want things to open up but are just doing what they are told to do. Once you're allowed to fish make sure you get of water before 4pm to get a GREEN TAG so you can come back to fish New Melones. "IF YOU BREAK THAT GREEN TAG BY LAUNCHING SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU HAVE TO START THE 30 DAY PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN".

Sunday, December 1st, 2024

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 62.5 - 63.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It's been a great year for Casitas. Last year must have been the bottom of it's ebb and flow as this year was amazing in comparison. For myself 29 fish in the 5 pound class. 11 6 pound class fish and my best fish in years here at 8 pounds. Actually I hadn't broken 6 pounds in years. Where and what they were doing can be speculated by me at best. I don't have FFS and even those with it could not catch a keeper during the summer of 23'.
      It is fishing well even now Dec. 1 with water temps starting at 62.5 finishing at 63.5. even though you can find boiling fish ( look for the birds) I have been doing well on spoons and typical winter baits from 25 to 50 feet. I have been working with scope baits and 90 degree hooks for strolling to add to my winter tactics. It seems you don't need to have livescope to fish these baits as I am just intuitively casting about and do'n the Alabama shake back to the boat. I have gone through $50 worth of Keitechs or senko's in a day some days this year. Amazing panfish population that I don't remember from years past right now. Big red ear and 2+ pound crappie to be had around the lake in profuse numbers.
      The largemouth have some nastier teeth than in years past leading me to believe there was a shift from trout to panfish at some point as a forage base for the largemouth that are large enough to take them on. There is so much cover in the water that it can be daunting but it can be overcome with a few weedless baits. There is a lot of bait every where but the bite has almost been like fishing for northern strain instead of Florida strain largemouth this year as I have caught fish on just about everything I've tried including a spinnerbait..LOL..which just hasn't been the fishes style here in years.
      Hoping for some rain but I know what I'm going to do and where all the way down to the the 25 % mark again so we have years to catch these fish. with all the cover the outlook is so bright you have to wear shades.
      BEST OF LUCK TO ALL THIS COMING YEAR.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Usual start out of Paradise 6am; heavy fog (got passed by a boat with no lights), please be careful. Mid-high-outgoing to low tide. Only had the morning so fished our usual spots. Nothing on crankin' and only tried topwater briefly; A few 10" to 12"ers hooked on dropshot and senko working outside weedlines and first ledge/dropoff. Went to 100 size jerkbait with 3-5-7 second pauses. Started catching but only up to 12"ers. Speedo and trim gauges were acting screwy so off the water by 11am.

      I'm sure plenty others are catching as they probably know a lot more productive spots. (As seen on some latest vids from In Deep on the Delta/Steve Cooper and Blanchard.) I really believe our spots aren't always producing and/or we're not at a good bite window (early morning's been tough).
      So that said, I guess we'll venture out and explore more and hopefully find some new and productive waters...but that may not be til early new year.

      Tips: As always, not qualified to give tips, here's what worked:
      - Dropshot - 6" Roboworms in MMIII, Junebug, and Green Pumpkin
      - Stick Worms - 5" Senko in Junebug and Green Pumpkin
      - Jerkbait - downsized to 95-100 size - Clown, Pro Blue, BE Gill (3-5-7 sec pauses..all hits on the pause)

Friday, October 4th, 2024

  • Lake County, California
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      Report: Spent 5 days on Clear Lake last week, and despite all the tournament weights that would say this lake is on fire, it’s not. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but you really have to work hard to find the quality bites. So lake conditions - water temp was 70-77 and the weather was a low pressure cooling.

      The first days were high pressure, heating up on the first day with a high of 85. The little fish seemed willing to bite a ChatterBait and a Keitech. The second day, the weather highs where going to be 100+. The fishing really wasn’t that good. I fished docks, shade, tules, and only had three bites all day.

      The rest of the time I had hot days 100+, but the fish seemed to be ok with that. I threw a ChatterNait in the morning in 3-5 ft of water, but I would have to make multiple casts and different retrieves to every dock piling. I fished it like I knew there was a fish on every piling and I just had to trick them into eating my bait. I had over 20 fish with the largest going 9.89. That was fun.

      About 10:30 am, I would put the reaction down and go flippin' and I just flipped tules, brush and any place I could find shade. I’d go for a hour until I would find em and whenI found one, I would get 3-4. I got into some wrestling matches thatI just didn’t win.

      So if you want to have a great time, plan on spending a couple days at Clear Lake, because once you figure out how you want to catch them, multiple limits of 20lbs is possible. The baits I had success with JackHammer in shad with Missle Bait Spunk Shad on Frenzy Nail, D Bomb with a 3/4 oz Flippin' weight, R2S Big Poppa and a Drop Shot.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched usual time 6am at Paradise; anticipating high tide at 7:18, ran to one of our fav flats areas to try some topwater; soon as we got to our starting spot, saw that a sea lion was feeding right in the flats we wanted to fish; we watched him dive into tule clumps with his back and tail above water. Then he'd come up with a bass, tail and half the body sticking out, then in a second, chomped and gulped down. He worked both the inside as well as perimeter of the flats. In 25 mins of watching, we watched him come up with a bass 9 times, and some of those bodies and tails looked pretty sizeable. I've always seen the sea lion(s) on the move but never really saw them feed in an area. We tried to move away from him but he'd work as close as 10-15 ft from our boat, coming out of nowhere. We finally got fed up and gave up on that area. We could only imagine how many fish he ate before we got there.
      OK anyways, we moved across the flats to a rock wall and started crankin' both shad and red craw crankbaits, they were taking both. Managed many rats but also several 1 - 1.5 lbers and an occasional 2lber. Since I had a choppo tied on, I threw into a tule cut up against the rock wall. As I waited for the "circles" to dissipate, I saw my choppo just go under so I set the hook and boated one. So I started working the choppo slow, not reeling it in but subtle twitches like a popper. This worked for a bunch more takers, no real blowups, just inhaling it down. I did get a choice few reeling in for the next cast and they came up and hit it, those 3 or 4 x were the only actual blowups I got. My brother was deadstickin' a worm on a shaky head and got his that way and on a dropshot, same type of worm.
      Ended early and off the water by 11:30am... short but fun morning, other than watching the sea lion munching. Nothing over 2lbs but still fun!!

      Tips: As always, not qualified to give tips, but here's what worked:
      - crankbaits - bone/white Speed Trap along with Lucky Craft DRS 2.0 in TO Craw
      - Choppo 75 in bone/white, worked it like a popper, slow and subtle twitches
      - Dropshot - 6" Roboworm - MM & MMIII
      - Shaky head worm, deadstick/draggin' - MM & MMIII

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 66-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early at Paradise, outgoing lowering (low tide 9:04); started throwing white/shad pattern cranks and managed mostly rats but a few 12" to 1 lbers. That slowed down and I was considering going a red craw pattern but decided to slow down with the lowering tide and started throwing wacky senko / stick worms. I was rigged weightless 6" and my brother was throwing 5" on 1/8 oz jighead. He was hooking up 3 to 1 on me so I tied on a 1/8 oz jighead and started catching up to him. We were working shallow at rockwall/tules out to the dropoff/ledges and the holes in the weed beds in between. Fish seemed to be hunkered down in the weeds and on the outside ledge at the bottom (about 8-12 feet). My brother was deadsticking / dragging while I was working mine more. He was still getting more hookups than me but he has more patience than me for deadstick/dragging. Anyways, ended the morning early with my brother boating a 4lber (4lb 5oz).

      Tips: As always, not qualified to give tips but here's what worked and didn't:
      worked:
      - white/shad pattern cranks (I'm thinkin' red craw would have worked but I went to plastics when crankin' slowed down)
      - 5" and 6" wacky senko type stick worms in green pumpkin, junebug, and black/red flake

      didn't work:
      - topwater (white buzzbait, whopper plopper) ... actually now that I think of it, my brother did get one on a popper early on.
      - dropshot (but didn't really fish it long)

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Usual early start, high tide; decided to explore; tried some new and inviting areas; managed only a few rats and barely keepers; with a slow start, ran back to some usual spots but not much better, very slow, junk fished for only a couple of keepers. Some guys at the ramp said it was combination of last night's full moon and the temp drop. I honestly don't know but it sure was a complete 180 from previous outings. Oh well, try again next week.

      Tips: As always, not qualified to give tips but here's what worked today:
      - smaller jerkbaits (90 / Jr size)
      - wacky and T-rigged senko/stick worms 5" & 6"
      - shakey head 6" worms
      Everything else....NADA