{http://songslinger.virtualave.net/fishing.html}
 

 Summary:  Wind, cold, and crummy tides made fishing a strange hobby this past week.  But the water is moving again and the days are getting longer, minute by minute.  Not much to cling to, but hope is what makes anglers keep coming back to the water.

STRIPED BASS:  Take a ride up to North Delta.
 

STURGEON:  This past week was a terrible in terms of tides, and the fishing reflected that.  But there are sturgeon if you know where to look for them.  Try the rivers and tributaries that empty into San Pablo Bay.  The sturgeon are swimming there on their way to lay eggs.  Napa River at Vallejo might be the best shot for shoreliners.  Otherwise, San Pablo Bay has been a great place to donate bait to the mitten crabs.  This is why eel as bait has caught on.  Beyond its novelty it seems to be something the crabs don't like much.  Expensive, though.

PERCH:  Slow tides and wind combine for inconsistent action in the East Bay, but if you can get in some fishing at the bottom of the tide you may find some black perch at Berkeley Pier or along the rocks in the Marina.  Muni Pier in San Francisco is still out fishing most other places, with pile worms and grass shrimp getting a wide variety of perch.  Nothing huge, but the quantity is respectable.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  Kingfish in San Pablo Bay.  Flounder are scattered from Suisun Bay all the way up to Rio Vista but will be making the turn seaward pretty soon.  Some rockfish on either side of the Golden gate bridge.
 

FRESHWATER: Trout planted at Del Valle, Shadow Cliffs, and Contra Loma.  The water cleared up in the lakes and the fishing conditions improved.  Take along some green PowerBait, marshmallows, nightcrawlers, and gold Kastmasters, and one of those should catch a trout. No special time of day.  Some stripers still getting caught at Contra Loma on plastic lures.
 

DELTA RUMORS: Wind is a factor: when it's blowing hard, forget about fishing.  The best area is where Suisun Bay meets the Sacramento River.  Both stripers and sturgeon are concentrated there.  Shrimp baits offer a chance of either fish.  Better prospects for shoreliners remain on Sherman Island or up along the Isleton Bridge. Still a lot of rolling sturgeon at Cache Slough. Current hot bait has been eel or mudshrimp for sturgeon, pile worms, cut anchovies, and ghost shrimp for striped bass.  Some black bass activity on plastic worms at Holland Tract but still slow all around.  Catfish are fair everywhere.