Summary:  A brief respite between minus tides is not enough clear up the water in the bays, not with the winds pounding before Noon.   The ocean is the only place with visibility beyond a foot or so.

STRIPED BASS:  The stripers are all over the bays but the schools are not concentrated, to say the least.  Crummy tides, water, and weather may be moving them through the system faster and out to sea.   Live bait is still the way to go.  Best bets, such as they are, include Richmond, Berkeley, and Fort Point.  Moonless nights call for dark popper lures on the surf.   Don't wait for the rumors.  If you are in a traveling mood, there are some nice schoolies on the surf below Santa Cruz in the mornings and evenings.
 

STURGEON:  Look in the back sloughs in the evening.
 

PERCH: April 1 marks the closure for perch fishing (save for shiners) inside the bays until August 1.  Waves are still a bit rough along the coast, but the dedicated grubber van find some redtail and barred, just not in huge numbers or sizes.  Baits will and striped and walleyed perch to the mix.
 

MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: If the shiner spawn at Berkeley Pier is a harbinger, then the halibut are going to be there in good numbers soon.  A week, two?  Tides and winds suck but a heat wave will perform magic.  Get acclimated now and be ready for the run.  Sharks and rays are abundant at night all along the shore form Richmond to Emeryville.  Almost any bait will interest them.  Jacksmelt are at Fort Baker and Berkeley.  Float rigs with pile worms.  Rockfish and eels are available to those who work for them.   Shoreliners should be grateful we get a chance to fish for these species--so be sensitive and selective.