California Delta - Sunrise

California Delta - Sunrise
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Monday, June 27, 2011

HERO TO ZERO - Birthday Experiances on the CA DELTA

I wanted to share my Birthday Experience with you all -so I am here to embarrass myself and get your suggestions or thoughts on how this could have ended differently.

I fish the California Delta quite a bit, this is a tidal water fishery with over 1100 miles of fishable shoreline - Water temps were 75 - 76 - tide was low at 8:30 high at 12:30 with a 2.0 foot swing from low to high (not much movement) winds were stable NNW 5-10 overnight lows around 56 stable for two days coming out of three days prior of 100+ days and lows of 78.

On Friday (my birthday) my partner and I went back to a magical area of ours where Mark Keyes pulled a 15.77 frog fish this time last year 366days ago. 

We pulled into the area on Friday and threw Senkos down the inside weed lines and pulled two fours - I quickly told Mark to put the rods down and we need to go do some looking as we had a tournament on Saturday.  The FIRST thing we noticed was an 8lber suck down a bluegill - the SECOND thing we noticed were blue gill beds - lots of em and not the lil guys but the big bull bluegils; you know the ones that are bigger then your hands. I put the trolling motor on high and we began looking and fishing with our eyes this area was LOADED with big fish, several over 8 and a couple over 10 as well as enough 1-3 to put on a fish fry for a village – just unbelievable for a cove that is approx 300yrds around.   We fished the outer edge where the bigger fish were not just to see how to get them to eat – Frogs, Senkos, Tubes all produced fish – needless to say we were STOKED on the area – this is what fishermen dream of and we knew that we found our spot for our 6 hr tournament and that the event was ours to lose.

Game day we draw boat 36 (I just turned 36 on Friday) first flight (we wanted first flight for the outgoing tide) and we were the second boat out!  Luck is on our side – we get to our first spot and I start throwin the senko as Mark is workin the frog in the cheese – I connect with a rat and BOOM SPLOOSH wild commotion Mark has a frog fish on – BOOM BABY 5lber in less then 5 minutes, two more casts with the senko and I have 3lber (and we are not even in the best part of the cove)  we work our way down the grass line carefully dissecting each grass point and pocket – but something has changed our insideline has been blown back with the cheese – the mat has shifted and moved and the big bluegill are not on the bank only the lil guys.   I knew find the bluegill find the bass – so we slid out to the next open lane in the cheese – we find cruisers in the 6-7lb range throwing senkos and tubes in front of them to no avail – The Grass is sticky (dying angel hair grass) and the bass have hunkered down in the grass – we limited out on two Buba – Shot Fish and Three Senko Fish two pounders – we knew our big fish didn’t get up and swim out of the cove – they were there in the grass – just not active – the angel hair didn’t let us get our bait down to the fish and when you did get the bait down it was so slimed up it looked like a glob of goo.   We weighed in 12.5 lbs for our best five – the fish beat us this day, we had the right spot, the right size fish all around us – just couldn’t get a bait effectively to them.   So I ask – have you ever experienced this type of situation?  If so what did you do to solve the problem?   If not what would you have done differently? 

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