Ya' know, when I go to one of my trophy bass lakes, "I know" where the big bass hang. Sure, they may have backed off 50 feet after a weather front, or dropped down 10 feet deeper, but they will almost always still be within a casts distance.

Totally unso in the Delta :-( {albeit Largemouth's might be a bit more stable, and stick to spots a bit tighter} But I don't fish the Delta for Largemouths. Contrary to what you will hear and read, I don't consider the Delta to be very much of a high percentage, trophy Largemouth fishery.

But the thing is, for the fish I'm after in my parts of the Delta, the Sturgies or Stripers can be litterally stacked up in an area one day, and completely gone the next ! And I mean like "20-miles-away gone.... and without even having to swim" ! They simply get out in the current, let the tide take them 20 miles on a nice, fast, 6 hour tide, then pull over into an eddy, before it starts to come back in.

And for whatever reasons unknown to me, this seems to be exactly what they did this week :-( Got my butt kicked 3 days in row. And it's not like they were there, but I just couldn't get them to bite either. I didn't see the Sturgeon jumping. I didn't graph any. I only had 1 or 2 runs from "little Stripers".... I really felt like I was fishing vacated water :-(

Even my buddy with his super-duper $1500 graph kept telling me.... "I'm not seeing ANYTHING" !

Urggggg ! Put fish in front of me, and I'll stick a hook in one or two.... but give em' a straight shot to a 100K acre bay (which I can only fish on the flattest of days), with no swimming required... and when they disapeer, I'm just pretty much just b-*** out :-(

Oh well. It beat the heck out of what I have to do today. I won't use foul, four letter words like this on the forum, but it starts with a W, and ends with a K......

Enough of my ranting....

Peace,

Fish

I might have to delete this post...

I don't want anyone to think Fish Chris is a mere mortal.   :

 8-)

You da MAN!

If you can't catch 'em, they can't be caught.

Thanks RW....

One things for sure, > If they are not there, they can't be caught ! <

Peace,

Fish

Funny.  Many see my opinions on things as very different.  I really don't care much about bait/lure color, line diameter, technique specific equipment, etc.  Give me gear, I'll catch.  

I think this comes from the fact that I was mainly a saltwater fishery angler for the first 15-20 yrs of fishing.  FINDING these great schools and learning not just their feeding areas but migration routes was always the tough part.  FIND them and you can get them to bite on a number of different baits, styles, presentations, etc.  A bass is a bass, once you find him.

I feel for you I hate fishing tidal waters for any type of fish. IT is enough to get out there at the right time when they are going to bite and you know the times but when you throw in a tide that complicates things alot. Your right FC one day they are there next day they arent. I know if i bought a fishing shack it would not be on a Tidal system