Summary:  If you blinked, you missed the spring.  Summer conditions prevails.  Foggy mornings, the wind up around noon, and the strongest incoming tides when the sun is long gone.  Let the games begin.
 
 
 
 
 

STRIPED BASS: Striped bass in all sizes are in the bays, and this is one of those times where it is worth it to fish through the shorties.  Berkeley Pier on live baits, Marin on hair raisers and swimbaits form China Camp through Loch Lomond, and across San Pablo Bay from Rodeo to Pinole on all types of bait.  Those are the best spots in recent days.  When the water is good and the winds behave, the ocean beaches are a decent prospect from Sloat Blvd down to Thornton.
 

STURGEON:  Late spring runoff is already having its effect.  In the Carquinez Strait, try Port Costa and Eckley Pier.  In SP Bay, there are fish are spread on the east shore from Rodeo to Point Molate with he best chances smack in the middle of the range.  Pile worms and shrimp baits are the way to go.   The east side continues to rule but on a smaller scale from Richmond through Emeryville and then again in Alameda.  The fish are stirred up and roaming.
 

PERCH: The theater is dark in the bays until August.  The surf has been a bit too hairy lately.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES:  Five halibut per day would constitute greatness in recent days on berkeley Pier.  It's something like 7:1 stripers to halibut.   Cold water and windy afternoons recovering from a minus tide do not help the cause.  Some have been caught on the Butler's Beach rockwall with hair raisers, but the action is anything but consistent.  Right now there are more butts suspended off shore from Brooks Island to California City than anywhere else close by.  Wait for the next bait run and look to the terns.   Rays are still slowly coming into their own and sharks are around, but the catch rates are low compared to what would be normal this time of year.   Jacksmelt are in small numbers in the East Bay when the water is low and slow.