THE WEEKLY SHORELINER'S REPORT
Summary: For a third and possibly fourth
week in a row, seaweed is a problem for shoreliners. We get a few
days off from the minus tides but they will be back. Evenings have
promise with moderate incoming tides, which may be good for stripers as
well as the bat rays and sharks.
STRIPED BASS:
Reports are coming in from all over of striper action but they rarely prove
to be anything more than a transitory bite. Our version of the Spring
Run, such as it was, is pretty much through. Spots to try for lingering
Bay bass include Alameda Rockwall, Ashby/Frontage road, Point Isabel, and
San Quentin Point. Baits will work but are more likely to attract
crabs and rays. Further upriver will get you a plague of small
stripers. On the surf the action has slowed though the birds are
still going crazy with all the bait in the water. Walk the beach
and throw lures and maybe come up with a big lunker.
STURGEON:
No change. Believe it or not, down river from Rio Vista is the best place
for sturgeon on shrimp baits.
PERCH:
No change. Nothing changing except for conditions imposed by minus tides
and winds. The seaweed is still souring the bite in the East Bay.
Try the surf, especially south of the Golden gate.
MISCELLANEOUS
SPECIES: Biggest news is the salmon in California City. Time
to get out the mooching rigs at yellow Bluff before the crowds move in.
Get ready for some early plugging in Rodeo and then east of the Carquinez
Bridge when the season opens July 16. Sharks and rays are still
active at night on a variety of baits, though lately it's been mostly rays.
Bat rays are also everywhere during the day. You want one, use cut
anchovies or squid. Halibut are still at Berkeley Pier but not in
great numbers or sizes. A lot of shakers scattered near the shore
from Alameda to Richmond. They'll head out the Bay in a big
way when the fireworks and boats spook them on the 4th, but there are still
many of them in South Bay. Baker Beach is a slight chance for some
big females on the easternmost end. Kingfish are around at night
in various places.
FRESHWATER: Trout planted at San Pablo Reservoir. Channel catfish planted at Del Valle, Shadow Cliffs, Chabot, ad Temescal. Same old summer pattern: fish for trout very early in the morning with glitter PowerBaits or nightcrawlers. Otherwise work for catfish in the mornings and evenings.
DELTA RUMORS:
Doldrums. Come up in the evening for some sturgeon at Sherman Island
(best on the outgoing by the Power Lines) or catfish everywhere else.
Some black bass fishing still happening on buzz baits and the ever popular
Senko worm. Salmon have been spotted or caught near Rio Vista already.