THE WEEKLY SHORELINER'S REPORT

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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.