Summary:  The moon is waxing and the water's moving.   Hit the beaches in the morning and the bays in the afternoon.

STRIPED BASS:  Hit China Camp on the incoming tide with anchovies and you have a better than decent chance of landing a legal striper.  And that's about it locally.  Elsewhere it's inaccessible or just too damn cold and windy.

STURGEON:  San Pablo Bay would be a great choice for sturgeon right now--if it wasn't for the deadly combination of mitten and young dungeness crabs.  Moments after casting you will be plagued by these critters.  the alternative is lamprey eel, sold frozen  in some shops for $20.  This is tough stuff, so durable that the crabs can't take it off the hook--and neither can you without some difficulty.  But it stays on, and should the sturgeon wander by your line, you can get lucky.  McNear's Pier is the best bet locally, but Vallejo, Eckley Pier, and Port Costa are not bad prospects.  Same thing with Montezuma Slough, hit and miss now but always available. And Dumbarton Pier and surrounding area are productive so long as there is plenty of water (in other words, get there before the tide tops). The tides are mooing like gangbusters now, so go to it!

PERCH: Virtually a repeat of last week.  If you want black perch and white perch, work the marinas in the East Bay or at Treasure Island from the last two hours of the incoming through the first hour of the outgoing tide,  Pile worms are the bait.  The fish are smallish but schooling.  Or else it's the lonely shoreline stroll for the big pogies, one at a time.  Berkeley Pier is seeing some decent catches of the same species, with the occasional pile perch, from the middle to the end of the pier.  Striped perch are on the jetties.  Best place to be these days is Muni Pier.

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  Kingfish are scattered throughout San Pablo Bay, hitting mostly on the incoming tide. Lots of jacksmelt are at Fort Baker.  Bullheads are ubiquitous.  Flounders are at McNear's Beach and throughout the sandy areas of San Pablo Bay, including a whopper pulled up north of China Camp.  Rockfish are a slow prospect due to high winds on the surf and rough water on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge, but someone landed a nice 29" lingcod off Fort baker Pier on a white Hair Raiser.

FRESHWATER:   Trout plants this week at Shadow Cliffs, Chabot, Del Valle, and Bon Tempe.  The absence of rain has really helped clear up the water, so lures like Rapala and Kastmaster are starting to work again.  PowerBait holds sway, however, with good sizes and quantities reported on glitter yellow, rainbow, orange, and charities.  In other words, any kind.  Combos like marshmallow and nightcrawlers are also effective now.   If you can't stand waiting for the water to warm up for black bass, you can entice them with crankbaits around structure and weeds.  They are around, just not particularly aggressive yet.

DELTA RUMORS:  The week's cold snap has brought evening temperatures down below freezing in some parts of the Delta.  So the fishing hasn't been the greatest.  Yet sturgeon are still getting caught at Cache and Steamboat sloughs on shrimp baits, shad, herring, and eel.  Also some diamondbacks taken around Sherman Island.  It's a matter of braving the elements (and especially that awful shrill wind) and going deep.  Striped bass fishing is torpid to say the least, though some fish have been brought in on the back sloughs in the north and south.  Shad baits are the best bet.   Black bass fishing is also slow though the tourney guys are taking them near the shore on crankbaits and the old reliable Senko worms.  Try the middle of the Delta, like Franks Tract.  Catfish are hitting clams really well in South Delta, specifically off the banks of Whiskey Slough, and will also bite on cut sardines and other fishy offerings.