Summary: 2002 is going out with flood and bluster, no doubt about it.  Get your gear on, bring a thermos, and put your time in.  Crowds will not be a problem.  Finding live bait might be difficult because shops are not stocking much due to the lack of business.   Catch your own or work with frozen fare.  Forget about lures unless you like the activity.  The water is thick and dark.

STRIPED BASS: Best shots locally for stripers have been on the high tide by the river mouths in northwest San Pablo bay on pile worms, anchovies, and grass shrimp in about that order.  Also from Point Pinole through Rodeo and into Crockett, though you will have to wade through some shakers to get the occasional keeper.  Live bullheads are still productive in Benicia by the piers.

STURGEON:  No word on herring spawns but the water movement and opacity sure are conducive to diamondback angling.  Some of the same areas in San Pablo Bay that have bagged stripers have also picked up sturgeon.  Carquinez Strait, though a muddy, slippery challenge to shoreliners, is a good prospect, with schools marked fairly close to shore from C&H through Eckley Pier.  And now is the last chance to try for sturgeon within the SF Bay bridges before the closure on January 1.  Good spots in the past have been Emeryville, Point Isabel, and Marina Bay.  Not much going on in Alameda.  The South Bay is another choice of merit, yet the weather has made access problematic.
 

PERCH: Pogies are still around despite the storms and minus tides, and can be found off the rocks form Emeryville to Richmond, and in good numbers around San Quentin Point.  SF shoreline is less productive.  And skip the surf unless you have a death wish!

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  Same old same old. Kingfish are all over the bays.  Not much else going on save for a few straggler rays in Alameda,  sharks lurking by the Towers, and some odd rockfish wandering the deep channels of San Pablo Bay.  Chunks of anchovies might alleviate boredom.  Still no word on starry flounder.