First off big thanks to Dan and Fishdelta.com for working out the details with Tracy Wildlife Association, without Dan and TWA we would not have been able to fish old river.

Congrats to zaldain and Mr. castro for their respective finishes as well as a big congrats to Mitch for consistently kicking our butts this year.

At the start of the day I really had no idea which way I would go. We were in the water and kept slowly drifting right so I decided since I knew I wanted to throw a crankbait that I would go right(with the current) so I would not have to fish against the current all day long. I started off fishing a medium diving crankbait and kept smacking it into logs, branches, weeds, rocks, just about everything and just couldn't buy a bite. I grabbed the flipping stick and started tossing a DW beaver and within about 10 flips I caught my first fish although a very small one that would eventually be culled out, it told me they were interested in the plastics and they were on the wood even though they wouldn't eat the crank slamming into the wood. I kept flipping and throwing the crank changing up the color on the crankbaits to try and force a reaction bite with something that would cover a lot of water, for me it just never happend, I tried three colors of speed traps, a medium diver that has worked real well for me in the past and a LV500.

After going back and forth between different cranks and the beaver I decided to start playing with what I was doing with the beaver to see what I could get. I changed to the regular sized beav, and to my second favorite color since I was all out of 420's in the small size. I found a bank that had a pretty steep wall and deep water with trees that had fallen into the water and began flipping the trees. I pitched my beaver into the very tip of a laydown and stripped off a couple strips of line and it started swimming away so I reeled down and swung and quickly had my big fish in the boat. I ended up concentrating thereafter on flipping beavers to the wood and slowly I was able to put a limit together even though I was pretty concerned that a 3lber that jumped to eye level and tossed my hook was going to be the deciding factor it ended up not being so.

Thanks again to everyone that came out to the Delta Region events this year.