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Mark from Roseville Ca booked with Tight Lines Guide Service May 5th for a great day on the San Joaquin side of the delta. He caught this 26 pound hog striper 30 seconds into the first pass on a chartreuse deep diving YoZuri. Fought it like a pro!!! Great catch Mark!!!

Saturday April 21 was a great day on the water on the San Joaquin side of the delta.  Same spot now for 6 days but hard to look elsewhere when the striper fishing is this good.  A last minute booking turned out to be a great day fishing.  We caught Stripers to 10 pounds today with a ton of other boats who were in a

Sunday April 22, started off slower than normal but someone turned on the light switch at 9 and it was game on.  After fishing this same spot on the San Joaquin side of the delta for over a week now, I knew that the fish would eventually move up to shallower water and back off throughout the day.  I was just hoping that they would

5 limits today in the San Joaquin side of the delta. Clarity of water today looked as if it never rained.  Heard the sac side was clear too though there were some logs floating by. Not red hot action but steady once you found a school. Caught 2 spawned out females today. Kinda early for that. I have some open days left this week available for booking in sacramento.

After zig and a gazillion zags through the armada of boats today, we busted out 4 limits of Quality Stripers to 10 pounds.  Average size fish we kept was between 4-5 pounds.  Did a lot of moving around the San Joaquin side of the delta but caught fish almost everywhere we tried. If you want to get in on the action I have just a

Today's trip (Saturday 12/2/17) to the San Joaquin side of the delta produced a great quality of Stripers to 9 pounds. Drifting mudsuckers in 15-25' of water put em in the boat today.

Fall run is about over but some late fall run have arrived in the Sacramento River before schedule.  These hard fighting salmon are just hours from the salt, most with scales and sea lice still on them.  This is my favorite time of year to fish for salmon as the weather is nice and cool and boat traffic is at a minimum.  Running a special

Fishing Guide James Netzel checked in from Tight Lines Guide Service. Today the Bite was strong at Stampede. We caught about 40 fish and lost a bunch by 11am. Hot bait today again was powerful pink Radical Glow tubes. Garlic scented corn tops. Caught em on Brad's Killer Fishing Gear Kokanee cut plugs and wobbler dodgers, gold apex, Radical red RGT, and Dick

Fishing Guide James Netzel from Tight Lines Guide Service checked in this afternoon with an update from Boca. Today we hooked over 50 Kokanee, but only managed 20 to the boat to 16.5". Huge Kokanee for this early in the season. Can't blame losing fish on clients because I fought em and lost em too. Hot lure today was powerful pink Radical Glow tubes. Caught

Fishing Guide James Netzel checked in tonight from Tight LInes Guide Service.  We had a good bite today using live bait.  Chewed through 6 dozen minnows to get these. Ended with 8 keepers. Can't count that high for all the shorts.

Fishing Guide James Netzel check in with an Striper update from the Delta. We had a windy cold day in the delta turned into a nice calm day. With some nice fish on top of it. Today we caught 7 keepers to 8 pounds and a couple shakers. Incoming tide was best on the San Joaquin. Have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday open right now and

Fishing Guide James Netzel checked in this afternoon with an update from Tight Lines Guide Service. James said, "Caught some quality Stripers to 7 pounds today on the outgo tide in the San Joaquin side of delta. All caught on deep diving Yo-Zuri America. Inc. in 14-15' of water. The incoming bite was non existent the past couple days so we followed the tide