Summary: March has entered like a cold stiff lamb.  The fishing has slowed down accordingly.  But the days are beautiful and it's still worth getting out.
 
 

STRIPED BASS: San Pablo Bay has received it's first wave of spring run schoolies in the 3-8 pound range, and they are hitting pile worms and grass shrimp at the top of the tide. Marin remains the best shot at good sizes these days, but it won't hurt to work the shoreline from Rodeo to Point Pinole.  Some big ones around Benicia and Martinez for patient bullhead soakers.

STURGEON: They are still mostly in the Suisun, with Pittsburg down to Martinez being the logical shore choices.  Elsewhere it's slow and tides won't be picking up for another week  Best to hit the deep fast waters of the Carquinez or Montezuma Slough.  Nada for Alameda lately and Marin is something of a disappointment right now.

PERCH: Very slow, must be the cold.  Pogies in the East Bay, but you have to be mobile.  Fort Baker is consistent for striped perch.  The annual slaughter of the big rubberlips has not yet materialized at Fort Point, but the fishermen have.  Any time now.  On the surf, it's the ubiquitous walleye and some calicos, with an occasional redtail or barred in the mix.

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Kingfish and jacksmelt in the South bay, depending on the tide, high for the former and low for the latter.  One or two halibut caught in disparate locations but nothing worth investigating.  Crissy Field has been a desert.