One of the nicest parts of the trip was to see how much the high water of the winter cleaned out the hyacinth from a ton of the areas I fish. They don’t migrate away from the islands because its just to far to swim. What we found was that islands that had pronounced spawning areas had what I feel are resident fish. Now we just needed to find the pattern and we did that as well. The bait that would do the trick for the rest of the day was the Plopper. I actually landed one 2+ pound bass on the black frog. We had both started out with a white frog tied on but after only getting a few swirls it was time to switch to a darker color, I chose black and he picked dark green. When there was small pockets that the plopper wouldn’t work the river2sea bully-wa frog was used to look for fish.

Ok, from Frank’s we headed to a a couple of my regular destinations, I was still wielding the Whopper Plopper making casts up on the shallow areas of the islands and pulling out towards deeper water.

Here was a cool part after that he let me drive his new Nitro Z-20, that was awesome. The original plan was to run south but we stopped at a tulie berm in Frank’s tract and while we didn’t catch anything my partner decided he wanted to see a little bit more of the middle delta. With the fourth or fifth cast a nice size fish blew up on my bait this would happen five more times on this particular island with no successful hook ups. At the south end of this island is a big spawning flat that drops off into deep water, I know this time of year the islands that have room to spawn on will hold those post spawners. On the way down I had Anthony stop at one of my favorite islands, I picked up the River2Seausa Whopper Plopper in the Blue Blood color. We launched at B&W Resort came out turned right and headed towards Frank’s Tract. Lucky for me I was right and all the preparations led to a very fun and successful day on the Delta. I made sure to hydrate take all my meds and get some sleep I figured this would give the best chance to fish for the day or 6 hours anyways. Let me tell you I was extremely nervous and almost told him no, I decided to take a chance and see what happened. This Delta trip all started with an invite from my friend Anthony Souza, this would be my first major venture away from the house since my injury.

Scotts flat fishing report