Summary: Mellow tides for the next week make for good possibilities.  Get up and get out before the winds hit and you have an excellent chance.

STRIPED BASS: Top prospects for striped bass in the bay system include: Oyster Point, Fort Point, Ashy/Frontage Road, Marina Bay, Rodeo, Crockett and Benicia.  That's right, they are spread all around the bays, which means some have begun the Fall Run early.   During the middle of the day, baits are best, with live bullheads, blood worms, pile worms, grass shrimp and curt anchovies in about that order.  Near dawn or dusk, try blue chrome Rat-L-Traps, white hair raisers, or broken back types.  The ocean was less than spectacular for stripers this summer; perhaps we'll get a nice autumn payback.
 

STURGEON: Sketchy news all around.  Still, best bets Eckley Pier and Port Costa.
 

PERCH: Winds shut down the bite, so get out early and work the rocky shelves.  Plenty of good sizes in pogies on pile worms in the East Bay.  Across the way, black perch are joined by striped perch.  In the surf, it's striped perch and walleyed when the waves behave.  Typical late summer potential.
 
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Halibut are getting caught at Oyster Point on live baits, and at the Alameda rockwall on whole frozen anchovies, though in smaller numbers.  Throw swimbaits and chrome lures behind the North Tower between Kirby Cove and Point Bonita, and this may pick up a hallie or a lingcod.  Lings are available south of Pacifica on baits or north of Point Reyes.  Most are small, however.  Rockfish are around for baits below Highway 1 from Pacifica to Davenport. Not much happening on sharks and rays, save for some small guys at Ferry Point in Richmond.  Nada on jacksmelt or kingfish except for a few strays. That should change as these tides even out.  Look to Fort Baker when the winds are manageable.