are there any striper on the west coast??? well north west bc CAL would be way to warm...

well are there any other striper in the world??? or is it just the new england cost and little bit south....

San Francisco bay has some very good striper fishing (transplants) but I don't know of any other areas.

San Francisco bay has some very good striper fishing (transplants) but I don't know of any other areas.


san fran?!?!?! i would think a weeeee bit warm, but cool

I heard the same thing. Someone transplanted Stripers to California.
:scatter:

When I was working in KS they had these hybreds called Wipers. A state run program brought in Male stripers who fertilized the native female white bass eggs. I caught a bunch of them in the reservoirs out there and they were really fun on fresh water gear. Basically what we would consider schoolie size here is keeper size in the Mid West. Considering there is nothing to do in KS this was my most exciting thing to do out there.

Most of the west coast actually has cooler water temperatures. Even off Santa Barbara and as far south as LA, it rarely gets out of the 60s.

SF Bay is freakin' cold.

realy!

that would definatly explane alcatras:laugha:

SF Bay is freakin' cold.
Tell me about it, went for a little swim back in 1962 ;)

-spence

Good fish in Nor Cal. Right not very warm, and always windy. They like yellow superstrikes there too :devil: No, humidity though. I'm pretty sure they start to peter out above Oregon, they're there but spotty.

New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas has freshwater stripers. The state record for NM was 55+ lbs in a man made resovoir. Shoreline fishing in the desert for stripers is fun just watch out for the rattlesnakes.:liquify:

Saltwater stripers were transplanted in California, Oregon. Sacramento River, San Francisco Bay area have them. Also, they are indigenous to rivers on the eastern Gulf coast in Florida, Alabama. That population was once continuous with the East Coast population, but drop in sea level brought Florida out of the water, separating the two populations. South Florida reaches too far into warm waters to allow mixing of the two populations.

You can catch stripers from north of Sacramento to SanFran - I got a few in the Sacramento River.

Even Northern Cali and north I'm told...

I purchased a couple of items off of ebay from a fellow from San Fran who is a Striper Guide. Their fall run was just getting on.

They took stripers across the land from N.J. via RR in 1879 and released an initial 133 in San Francisco Bay. A very interesting story. By 1899 they were netting a million pounds commercially from SF Bay. Considered one of the most successful fish introductions ever made. Would never happen in this day and age because of invasive species problems. Still think next world record will be fresh water caught, very close at this point. P.

It was only successful if you look at it from the point of the striper. Disastrous for somebody else. Every available niche in an ecosystem is already filled. Someone new comes in, they at best displace someone else. At worst, they topple the entire ecosystem.

i used to fish san francisco...lots of stripers to be had but i never hooked into any large fish there in 5 years of fishing...fantastic surf though...the cold water, big surf and tons of seals are the challenges...

Still think next world record will be fresh water caught, very close at this point. P.
someone may need to correct me if i'm wrong, but i think we have the world record landlocked striped bass at 67lbs, caught in 1992.

I purchased a couple of items off of ebay from a fellow from San Fran who is a Striper Guide. Their fall run was just getting on.

The CA Delta turned on a couple of months ago with a lot of fish being caught on topwater and the Sacramento and American rivers were also putting out some nice fish - some in the 30lb range.

I am getting ready to take out the sissy sticks for some Thanksgiving stripers in the Delta but we also have stripers in the surf. We'll also be throwing swimbaits, bucktail jigs and some spoons.

2005 was a banner year for surf stripers - amazing year. This year was a lot slower for me, but still a lot of fun. My big fish last year was about 42" and about 30 lbs. My big fish this year was just over 12 lbs.

BUT, I am still glad that you East Coast guys decided to share the wealth years ago and can't believe that the fish actully made the cross country trip on a train....did they travel first class?

Thanks again,

A West Coast Plug Junkie

welcome to s-b...

imagine if those commercial fish hadn't been harvested.

My cousin lives outside SF and claims the fishing is very good. He has a small boat and is diehard fly-guy. He also said that they tend to be shorter/fatter?

West coast bass fishing went into the crapper about the same time ours did. Glad to hear it's made the same comeback, and it gives something to think about. Why did the two stocks crash at about the same time?

One of my favorite SWS articles was on west coast bass back in the mid-70s. I remember a picture of the Cunang brothers, Abe and Angelo, hiking up a cliff with a stringer of cows over their shoulders, holding 11' yellow Lamis and green 706s in the other hand.

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/stripedbass/history.asp
http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/stripedbass/maps.asp

Some of the Delta is tidal and other parts are mountain run off. Water warms up in the summer in sac river, but SF Bay is similar to chatham and North shore water temps.

My largest bass this year was only 32". A peanut by east coast standards. . . still fun on light outfits. The sloughs are neat to fish . . . there's 1,000 miles of little rivers and sloughs in the delta to explore. Really neat fishing spots, but the fish are smaller (at least the ones I catch).

Thanks for the maps. I was curious.

san fran?!?!?! i would think a weeeee bit warm, but cool

Go there in June - August and say that.
frieken cold....

I live near Sacramento and it's over 100 degrees regularly during the summer June - August, but it'll be 55 degrees and foggy on the water . . . less than 60miles away outside the golden gate bridge.

http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1198/map.jpg

Sunday morning 9:30, ESPN2, Addictive Fishing Show.
Shows host caught a striper while fishing an inlet in Louisiana.

I lived and fished the SF area for 14 years, so I have some firsthand experience. In the mid 80's it was decent fishing with fish to about the mid 20's, but mostly smaller. I fished the open beaches in SF proper but there were guys who fished south of the city off the cliffs and on the rocks that did very well on surface plugs. In the mid 90's fishing went in the crapper and it was hardly worth investing in a new spool of mono.
It is almost all daytime fishing and its mostly 'Mickys' a fairly large metal in a Charlie Graves style. Hair raisers which is a bucktail and various surface plugs: PP, pikies, darters and poppers.
The wind never stops blowing in your face and sorry to disagree with you Throwin Timber:hihi: but its a pea soup fog there most of the time and that is as humid as it gets. I've been away for a few years and things have improved. Oh also the normal surf has 4 or 5 waves breaking at all times, it is like a storm surf on the east coast and the waves usually fairly large.

you know how the have that show East v.s. West shark fishing... Now that i know the west coast has striper i say they should have East v.s. West striper challange!!!

that would kick a$$


also do the still eat the same things like those slimy eel's???

East vs. West Coast striped bass fishing is not even close to being a fair challenge. I can catch a dozen 20lb bass anyday of the week back east. I haven't caught one twenty pounder in 3 years of fishing out here . . . my biggest is 32" this year. There are some neat spots, but the water is like chocolate milk most of the year.

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/albums/seacraft/tim5.jpg

EAST!!!!