Fresh Bethel Island Fishing Reports

We’ve been enjoying the fall bite with topwater dominating the action, but mixing in good quality with the dropshot (reds and pinks best bite). The frog bite is still happening when we find good weeds, but right now we have to do frog specific trips since it required a longer run to get to the better frog water. Book a trip. Its super fun right now.

Fall on the Delta is my favorite time to fish. Went out today to prefish for a trip coming up and wanted to see if the fall transition bite had started. Good news for clients, the bite is here and the slime weeds that fill these flats is almost all gone. We will fish topwater in current cuts that lead to flats and depending on which direction the tide is flowing it positions the fish in a way that makes it predictable for bites. With clients we will move through the areas quickly with big topwater baits and then turn around and slow down and pick apart the same areas with slower topwater finesse type baits and some senkos if the water is high enough. It is super fun right now. Book a trip!

The bite is consistent with numbers and mixed in with some really good size. The pic of this 7.5 lb bass was caught on a chatterbait at the last part of low tide. Book soon.

13 Days of straight guiding on the California Delta with my clients catchin’fish & making memories that will last a lifetime!

The early summer bite on the Delta is hot right now. The high outgoing tide is offering big numbers of fish with some trips getting over 30 fish in 4 hours. The low tide bite is offering up big bites with fish up to 5-6 lbs on topwater. Feel free to reach out for more info and book a great day on the CA Delta.

Yesterday on May 19, had the pleasure of having John aboard my boat to go catch some heatly sized largemouth bass on the dirty Delta for five hour trip. Needless to say it was all about the chatter bait yesterday! John wanted to focus on the retrieval of fishing a chatter bait correctly and he was definitely rewarded when he finally got it down! Especially when the fish bit and struck his chatter bait lure in maintaining the load in his rod and winding the handle on his real properly and performing a reel hook set. He did not miss one by doing this technique! Awesome job John ! Hope to see you again! Tight lines !