Summary:  Coming up on the final month to catch perch in the Bay System, so get your light tackle out and have fun while you can.  Stripers are moving down river, too.

STRIPED BASS:  Stripers are in San Pablo and San Francisco bays, mostly in the former.  More are on their way.  The Carquinez Strait would be a good middle section to explore with some really large fish filtering in from the Susiun (from the unfishable shore side, alas).  Indications of a good solid Spring Run are at hand.  Get those lures ready and use live bait while you are waiting.  Or head up to the near Delta.

STURGEON:  Tides this coming week mixed with spring runoff should improve conditions--anything would be a change for the better.  It's been dismal for everyone, not just shoreliners.  Try Martinez, Port Costs, Eckley, and Point Pinole, but don't expect much.  South bay has slowed to a crawl as well.  Fish seem to be in shallower water lately.

PERCH: Pretty slow this past week.  Best place in the East Bay was Emeryville, right across from the sportfishing building, and some action came off of Berkeley Pier and Richmond.  Not much better across the Bay, and the surf wasn't cooperating.  Big tides coming up won't help.  But start looking for barred perch inside the Bay, from Marina Bay to the Berkeley Flats.

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: The whereabouts of flounder continues to confound anglers.  Party boats, who usually get a good number of starry flounder as incidental catches, are getting hardly any.  Theories abound, with the most credible one saying that runoff has forced the fish into deeper water than usual for this time of year (while the sturgeon are working more towards the shallow zone).  Rockfish are slow; so are cabezon and lings.  Jacksmelt are caught at Fort baker by the cliffs.  Small halibut are at Crissy Field and hitting swim baits.

FRESHWATER:   Trout plants this week at San Pablo,  Shadow Cliffs, Chabot, Del Valle, and Temescal.   Best baits right now are Power Bait in green, chartreuse, or glitter orange, and nightcrawlers.  Pretty good fishing all around.  Black bass are taking plastic worms in deep coves.  Catfish are lying low and have yet to warm up.  Nothing doing on panfish.

DELTA RUMORS: The striped bass are moving.  The spawn is on.  Some of the back sloughs in the North will be good prospects, with Georgiana leading the pack on the current hit bait, salted ghost shrimp, followed by cut baits like sardines or anchovies and then pile worms.  Of course, live mudsuckers or minnows would be the best offering.  A little murky for any lures save the rattling variety and those are getting smacked close to shore.  Discovery Bay is the top producer in the South, with live minnows working well.  For sturgeon, the most consistent area is near Cache Slough, either from the Rio Vista side (still closed to shoreliners at Ryer Island) or Liberty Island Road.  Sherman Island by the towers is also good.   And anywhere from Isleton to Sherman Island could work.   Black bass are interested in Senkos in the middle section around Knightsen Road and the branch of the Mokelumne River and Jackson Slough.  Crappie fishing is taking off like crazy on the I-5 corridor at 8 Mile Road and a host of small tributaries off of Peltier Road.  Little minnows will get you huge panfish now beneath bridges and other structures.  Catfish gobble fishy baits.