Summary: Days are shortening, the air is cooler, and the fair-weather fishermen have departed.  Now is the time for true hearted anglers!

STRIPED BASS: The fabled World Series Bite remains in the playoffs stage.  Still a good deal of bait swimming along the Marin coast and no point for stripers to leave all that free food.  Good spots includes Strawberry Point on hair raisers and baits, sporadic stretches from San Quentin through China Camp, and also from Point Pinole to Crockett, with Rodeo and Vallejo producing the biggest fish on live bullheads and grass shrimp.  Best spot, nearly "hot" is the probably the water treatment area in Rodeo. Benicia and Martinez have had their moments as well.  Plugging still entices some shakers but there are keepers in the mix.  Slowly but surely the striped bass population is verging upriver.

STURGEON: Except for some movement at both ends of Montezuma Slough, there isn't much to relate about sturgeon.  No one is fishing for them much yet, but if you are getting antsy you should try Emeryville behind the restaurant, Rodeo by the "slab" and Eckley Pier.  Further upriver will only get you mitten crabs.
 

PERCH:  Large solitary black perch are getting bagged in Emeryville and Richmond on pile worms and grass shrimp.  Maybe one, maybe two, but no more than that for a day's angling, yet they are pretty big and meal sized.  Some walleyed around as well in decent sizes.  The surf is too messy right now and all you get is wet and cold.
 
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Halibut stragglers continue to wander San Pablo Bay, with some big guys lurking by Lone Tree Point in Rodeo and also near Point Pinole.  This week's meek neap tides might be worth the effort for a shot at one of these large flatties.  Salmon are at Rodeo and Crockett in small numbers, better at Dillon Point and the old congested bank at First street in Benicia.  Sharks and rays meander both Bays and the best action, such as it is, would be possible down in the South Bay from Oyster Point and below, and then in the vicinity of Point Pinole.  Jacksmelt are around in small schools with the larger numbers still due. Kingfish are near the shipping channels and estuaries in Richmond and Oakland.