west cost bass?

[Raven]

welcome to s-b...

imagine if those commercial fish hadn't been harvested.

[parker23]

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?

[Mike P]

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.

[bigshrimpin]

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).

[ProfessorM]

Thanks for the maps. I was curious.