Summary: Spring teases and taunts us with difficult weather.  Yet the fish are here.

STRIPED BASS:  San Pablo Bay is the main setting for good sizes and limits for the bait angler. Rodeo, through Point Molate, and across from China Camp to San Quentin have been the more consistent providers.  Live bait, like shiners or bullheads, will be the best strategy, followed by pile worms and shrimp baits.  Marina Bay is starting to see a few stripers per day on the incoming tide, with ghost shrimp and pile worms working the best.  If you feel that urge to throw artificials, Crockett is possible and so are the rocky shores in Richmond and Berkeley.  Lots more fish are coming down form the Suisun, too.
 

STURGEON:  Best shot right now is just outside Port Costa along the tracks heading for Ozol Pier.
 

PERCH: The theater is dark in the bays until August. The surf has been too wild and windy for anyone lately.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  Bat rays are starting to show up in good sizes albeit small numbers, with Marina Bay being fairly consistent.  Fish are hitting whatever is offered.  Same with sharks, though on occasion a keeper size in leopards will be brought in.  For flatfish it's a better picture.  Flounder and turbot are at Marina Bay and other spots here the mud and sand mix on the bottom.  Blood worms for these guys.  Some are nicely sized, too. Halibut are slowly moving along the Flats, with Marina Bay's rock wall producing one or two keepers in the last week and several shorties, all on Rat-L-Traps.  Live bait is getting the bigger hallies at Oyster Point and some are getting bagged at Berkeley Pier.  Shiners are starting to show up in most marinas and there are baby smelt all over the place.  If you want regular adult jackesmelt, work the bottoms of the tides with fishy baits.