Summary:  Summer knows she's on the way out but she isn't going gracefully.  The normal trend is for the wind to come in around Noon and blow the fishing out, but there have been days when the gusts are in full blistering force by sunrise--and days when a little zephyr is all you get.  Maddening, but there it is.  Best strategy is to get up early and get out on the water right away.   The fish are here.  Stripers have begin to move upriver and the sturgeon are stirring.
 
 

STRIPED BASS:  The wind calls the shots.  But if you can find a place where the wind is slight, there will be stripers around.  Right now, top prospects are Point Isabel, Marina Bay, and Rodeo. If you can throw hair raisers or Rat-L-Traps, great.  Bait fishing is the slowest course, but the stripers are hitting pile worms, anchovies, and grass shrimp.
 

STURGEON:  This week, things went haywire and reports came from all over the Bay/Delta System.  South Bay has sturgeon by Dumbarton, Carquinez Strait has them on the Port Costa side, and just outside the Mothball Fleet they are hitting shrimp baits.  Same thing with the Power Lines by Sherman Islands and up through Cache Slough.  Wild, early, but definite.
 

PERCH: Lots of good sizes in black perch off the rocks during an incoming tide when the wind is down.  As soon as the wind comes up, forget it.  The surf has walleyed, silver, and the occasional redtail or striped perch.  Pile worms work the best.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  You can still get halibut (though small) off the plug at places like San Quentin Point and Crissy Field.  Swim baits and hair raisers are good.  Sharks and rays are hard to find inside the Bay.  Jacksmelt have yet to materialize in true seasonal fashion.  Salmon are pouring through both bays, but so far they are not getting caught in good numbers at all.

FRESHWATER:   Catfish plants at Del Valle, Chabot, and Shadow Cliffs.  Use chicken livers or typical baits.  Pretty slow all around and will stay that way until the weather changes.

DELTA RUMORS: Salmon are seriously ticking people off up in the Delta.  They persist in cruising right through Rio Vista and Isleton without getting caught, and then showing up in Freeport in good numbers and in shoreliners' ice chests.  Wiggle Warts and spinners like Blue Fox and Mepps are they way to go.  Striped bass fishing is okay, mostly little guys, but there are some pigs moving through and getting caught on lures and baits.  No special artificial or natural baits.  Catfish reign supreme.  Black bass fishing gets some blood stirred up early mornings on plastics.