Tough Delta Fishing 3/28, 3/30

Made a couple trips out for stripers recently to give it a go. Saturday morning I took my friend Dana out who has just recently moved back to Sac from Virgina for the past 4 years. He's done a lot of

trout fishing with me before, but he's never caught a striper. We got on the water around 0600 and ran down looking for some top water action. First few spots we hit didn't produce much action. Dana managed to get the first blow up on a super spook, but it wasn't what we were looking for.

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Dana's first ever bass so that was pretty sweet. Nice 3lber or so. Kept pushing on looking for the stripers. Didn't have any more action on top, but we did stick quite a few fish throwing the jerkbaits. We ran all around the Delta Loop catching bass practically everywhere we went, but just couldn't find the stripers. We stuck it out until 1300 when the wind blew us off of the water. Didn't get what we came for, but it was a great day catching up with an old friend and catching fish.

Back again on Monday with Nan, hoping for some better action. First area Nan gets a really nice blowup on his Katch plug, but it doesn't stick. Still not a lot of action, but a few more miles down river I managed to Katch one throwing my 6.5 Rainbow trout plug. Smaller schoolie, but it felt great to get a fish in the boat and any top water fish is a good one. Made it all the way out to the SJ looking for fish. Tossing the jerkbait around without much love for a while before we stick anything else. We did manage to stick a few nice bass again in the hunt for our stripes.

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Action wasn't great, but we were putting a few fish in the boat so can't complain to much about that. Made our way back up river after the tide change and on the way Nan stuck a pig of a striper. As I saw him set the hook we could immediately see the silhouette of a DD striper, but just as our hearts skipped a beat in excitement it sank as his line went slack and the fish came unbuttoned. Damn, that hurt to see that fish get away. Kept tossing up river and we even slow trolled a bit on the way back up for a few missed hits and one more schoolie striper. Off of the water around 1300 again for another good morning out on the water.

Till Next Time
Mark