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DELTA &
SALTWATER
REPORTS (updated 01/21/2012) |
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Leslie Phillips inside the breakwall at Princeton Harbor.
Fighting a Jacksmelt.
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Hit or miss
on surf perch at Natural Bridges and
Sunset beaches. |
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Flies:
Surf Perch:
Rusty Squirrel #6,
Surf Percher Red #6,
Skok's Blind Crab #6,
Piconi's Prowler #6, Brite Blend Dredger #8, Micro shrimp #6,
10-40 #4, Ruffy #6, Llama Sand Crab #1, Hanley Surf Grub #10,
Jay's Sand Worm #6. Hanley's Beach Ball #6, Calhoun's Surfer
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The highly unusual
winter weather pattern has kept the majority of
striped bass in upper Suisun Bay instead of
moving up into the further reaches of the Delta.
As the water temperatures have dropped to as low
as 42 degrees and are currently in the 45 degree
range, the few stripers in the east Delta are on
a light bite
The few fish are holding in the slightly warmer
waters of the dead end sloughs, near marinas, or
oxbows off of the main river.
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At times stripers
are being caught by anglers in the West Delta,
but overall the fishing is pretty slow. The fish
are there, but in most cases it takes a good
shot of patience to wait out a bite.
Delta Striper Flies:
Charlie's Pole Dancer, 1/0,
Blanton's Sar-Mul-Mac, 3/0, sardine and anchovy pattern; Clouser
minnow, 3/0, gray and white; Lefty's Deceivers, 1/0 to 3/0,various
colors; Charlie's Airhead, 1/0, 3/0; Flutter Eel, 4/0; Whitlock's hair
jigs 2 to 2/0, various colors and Joe Dirt, 2/0.
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With
the amount of urbanization that
surrounds San Francisco Bay, it’s a
wonder there are any fish here at
all. But fish there are! Stripers,
halibut and sturgeon make up the
Bay’s Big 3 and Chinook salmon and
steelhead pass through here en route
to their spawning rivers at
different times of year, too. You’ve
also got hard-pulling sharks like
leopards, soupfins and sevengills,
not to mention rockfish and lingcod.
For the light tackle enthusiast,
there’s also plenty of perch and
jacksemelt and a few starry
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Good striper action in the South Bay and San
Pablo Bays.
Bay Area Flies:
Blanton's Sar-Mul-Mac, 3/0, sardine and anchovy pattern; Clouser
minnow, 3/0, gray and white; Lefty's Deceivers, 1/0 to 3/0,various
colors; Blanton's Bay-delta Eelet, 3/0; Whitlock's eel-worm, 2 to 2/0;
Whitlock's hair jigs 2 to 2/0, various colors and Whitlock's
sheep-shad, 2 to 2/0
Black Bass Flies:
Subsurface: Whitlock's Hare Jig 6, Chocklett's Gummy Minnow 2,
Hightower's Tre Generations 1/0, Nix's Shinabou Shiner 4, Burk's
V-Worm 10, Nix's Sunfish 2, Nix's Shinabou Shad 4. Burk's Bass Flash
2, Martin's Peacock Tracer 3/0, Cowen's Coyote 1. Darter Clouser 4.
Surface: Stewart Dancing Frog 2, Whitlock Bass Hopper 4, Blados Crease
Fly 3/0, Dahlberg Diving Minnow 4-1/0. Messinger's Frog 6. Dahlberg's
Mega-Diver 1/0.
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