Delta report for the last few months. Franks Track

In the last few months I think I've fished the Delta more than my home water's.
I've been working with a guide that's been guiding on the Delta for over 30 years that's started fishing from a kayak, but that's another story . Any way I know the area a whole lot better. The first trip we made was the first of October.The smaller fish had been in the Delta for a while and we caught lots of them from 12" to  a few lbs. That was our well earned  reward for a few hours paddling. It didn't take big flies to catch them, the guide was using a size 8-6 braided body type matuka flie with a rattle and I was using one of my Panochers. we or I made about three trips in October all with pretty much the same resultes.Results, early November we were still catching smaller fish but we were catching bigger fish as well. It was either have fun catching the smaller fish or work a little harder, paddle a little farther to catch the bigger fish. I have to admit when left to having fun like catching fish after fish sometimes for and hour straight guess which size I prefer.
Gear: The overall choice for a striper rod on the Delta is a 9wt along with a 6wt for those fun times, lately I’ve started carrying a 3wt , I’ve had to send it back to Sage a couple of times now to have the top half replaced, they keep telling me 3wts aren’t striper rods I keep telling they are, if their my rods.I was using a full sinking line on the 3wt, on the others I was using a shooting head made up of LC13 which I’ve just recently gone back to using in the last year, due to the fact I’m using a new kayak. For beginners
I still recommend commercial shooting heads.
Flies: we used what I mentioned earlier + flashtail clousers size 4-3/0 chart over white and blue over white.
December I’ll make another report.

Thanks for the detailed report Rickey!

Right on PNF! Great to see you back on the site.

Z

Yep, thanks for the fly report. Great motivation for those of us who keep sayin' we're gonna get out there & do it but haven't.

i'm with pisci...maybe i should break out my fly rods more than once a year....

nice in depth report

Nice hearing from you Rickey  How about a get together at the Forebay sometime soon?

Sounds good, actually I'd love to. After Friday I'm off for a few weeks.
What do you have in mind? It would be nice to have another get together like we did a few years. Lot of new faces on the board, very good to see.