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James, thank you for your response. I won’t over think it then Matt Greene

I live in Southern California and fish the delta some. I see a lot of people flipping. Why do they flip a PB&J colored baits? Thank you

Damiki vault or silver buddy on a 7’6” ML Cumara with 8-12 lb line depending on snags around. Tie your hooks with braid loops instead of split rings and try using #3 or 4 Gamakatsu Aaron martins fineness trebles. This setup works great for me. I can cast them a mile and feel every rock on the bottom as well as keep from pulling the hooks out of them

I think they are river carp. The people that own red and dots live across the street from the old store. I used to put my $10 in their mail box. There’s a private home that has a gravel boat launch just before the train tressel farther up river road. They launch their ski boat there. Might be worth looking into. For the summer bass: I caught most of mine around monacan park in the summer fishing a jig and Squarebill Crankbait in the ends of deeper lay downs around the island and a black spot popping frog along the grass and lay downs right next to shore

I grew up fishing Monacan park and the next section down. The lower section has a makeshift ramp at Red and Dots that you may still be able to use. I was able to put my 20’ Ranger in there. The best smallmouth came from the last mile upriver before the dams fishing any current breaks with flukes, 4” Senkos, dt6’s, 1/4 oz jigs, 1/4oz buzzbaits and spinnerbaits. Stick with black, brown, green pumpkin, green pumpkin magic and sometimes grey lure colors. Both largemouth and shallows will chew a spro popp’n frog here around all the shoreline cover. The current breaks usually were large trees, rip rap along the train tracks, and bluff walls with outcrops. If you put in at Red and Dots, be careful of a submerged wingman that’s about 1/3 of a mile above the train tressle. There’s a break in the middle that you can idle through. Tight lines! Matt 4346091641