west cost bass?

[baldwin]

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.

[JohnR]

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...

[ridler72]

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.

[ProfessorM]

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.

[baldwin]

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.

[doc]

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...

[wstcoastcastn]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

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.

[put_em_back]

Originally Posted by ridler72

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

[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.