Wow! Another Striped Bass Message Board!

Great Site John!, I will start checking your site as much as I do the Surf Fishing page and Tim's site. Good luck. I hope to fish again with you someday. If you come here to the West coast during the summer e-mail me and we can hit the beaches and Bay with LURES. And maybe catch and not cast for Stripers. Tight Lines, Dave C.

[JohnR]

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Hey Dave - how are things out in Sac?? You know it was about this time last year that we fished the Port together... Unfortunately I was unable to get out there this winter but I may in the fall. I'll let you know...

I am always impressed by the fact that you can target Stripers and Sturgeon at the same time! As much as my goal is to land a 50# Linesider, I surely could deal witha 100# sturgeon...

Maybe you can swing out east for a couple days...

See ya
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John, Sorry it took awhile for my reply. I have been really busy. Well it is April 1st and our Striper fishing is about to go into high gear. April and May are red hot for Striped Bass fishing in the Delta. They start making their spawning run. In June the Stripers start going downriver and back to the bay and the ocean. They will stay there until September when they migrate back to the delta for the winter. This is what is known as our fall run. November through March are considered to be slow months for Stripers. That is why Sturgeon are targeted during the winter. Fotunately that is when they are most active, as they like high muddy water that is a result from our winter storms. I tried Steelhead fishing this year, but with little success. I could only go out for them on the weekends, and unfortunaltly we had large rain storms hit us every weekend from January to March. There are some fish still around all through April, but they are smaller ones. I will try to fish for them along with Stripers in the Delta. In May the Shad will show up, and I can't wait for them. They are a blast to catch.
If you are coming here in the fall, there will be resident Stripers in the American river that hit lures cast from the bank. 50 pounders are in the river and have been caught. The largest Striper caught in the American river was 52 pounds. The Striped Bass fishing there is hot from June through October, but resident Stripers can be caught in there year around. June-October is hot because every year some Stripers migrate up the American in May following the Shad. These are often large fish, since they eat the Shad. These fish mix in with the resident fish and stay through the summer. Every year fisherman fishing for Shad get a large Striper trying to swallow the shad that they caught. Some have even managed to land the Striper with the Shad stuck in it's mouth. Also big Stripers have been known to strike Shad darts. Some big Stripers have been landed this way. But alot are lost because you use 6-8lb test line for Shad. There also are usually some Stripers still biting off the beaches in the Bay area and in the S.F. Bay itself. So give me an e-mail when you visit in the fall and we will go fishing and not casting.
When is it a good time to travel back east and fish live eels for Stripers back east? I would want to go when the fishing is hot there. I would also like to try that C.C. Canal. That sounds like a good place to fish. Do you fish there at all? Well good luck with the web site. And I will see you later.

Tight Lines, West Coast Dave

[JohnR]

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WCDave! How ya doin? I did have alot of fun when I was out there... Nice to get a couple fish in the Delta when most everyone else in New England was thinking about it... Getting larger bass around here (Rhody-Mass) can start late April early May. Figure May in the Canal. These tend to be caught on live herring but plugs improve the later in the spring you get... Eel fishing tends to start in June but people can get them in May as well! The larger bass will be in Rhode Island with the Large hitting the Outer Cape Beaches towards mid-late June... As far as the Canal? I'll start fishing there in a few weeks. I live about 35 miles away... There all kinds of time to fish the canal with plugs, live/dead herring, eels, you name it! May through November is the time to fish around here for big stripers...The very hot months in mid summer can get slow though... Let us know if you can make it out. We'll have to hook up for a trip to what's hot at the time!!
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[fishaholic18]

i'm in

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

i'm in

You're a pissa!

[RIJIMMY]

funny you should choose this thread to bump. I was in san francisco for the holidays with my wifes family and spent a lot of time scouting the waters. Im bringing my rod and waders next time