Summary: Bridge work continues to gum things up in the Central Bay but conditions are  beautiful beyond the Gate.  Lots of bait on the surf.

STRIPED BASS:  Most of the good sized stripers can be found on the surf from Baker Beach down to Thornton, and again from Sunset to Seacliff beaches in Monterey Bay.  Poppers, hard iron, and even swimbaits are working.  Tailor your lures to the weather and swells.  Or throw out baited rigs and be patient.  Some nice fish available to the early risers.   If you can't travel far, there are still some straggler schoolies, coming and going, scattered about the bays, with the usual haunts putting out a fish every now and again on hair raisers or pile worms.   Rodeo, China Camp, San Quentin, and even the Berkeley Flats are seeing a few fish.
 

STURGEON:  Same old same old for this time of year.  Hardly anyone thinks to fish for sturgeon. Boaters are finding them by the Mothball Fleet and inside Montezuma Slough, but other than that, pretty slow.
 

PERCH:  Pogies are in the house.   Some dandy black perch are close to the rocks from Emeryville to Richmond and pile worms are almost a sure bet.   Move around.  Across the Bay there are striped perch on the same bait at both towers of the Gate.  Out on the surf, despite all the weeds, you can pick up smallish barred perch on grubs south of the Gate, along with walleyes, and striped perch on bait.   North will see redtails on artificials and the ubiquitous walleyes, and also some striped and silver perch on bait.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Got the right tides for halibut plugging on the surf this week.   Try Muir, Baker, Montara, and Seacliff.   Inside, sharks and rays abide.  Salmon are slowly working through, but don't expect them to linger so long as the water is funky.