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If you have more questions, write or visit the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance at www.calsport.org. Note that all fishing organizations in our region and our state oppose this legislation. Our Department of Fish and Game disagrees with the premise of this legislation and is currently fighting a similar attack on our striped bass fishery in court. Your support in opposition is CRITICAL in helping to crush this legislation before it has a chance to ruin our fishery and harm your business!
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Delta
Bank Fishing
by Roland “Innovate”
Aspiras
No report submitted this week.
Roland
“Innovate”
Aspiras
Roland's Fishing Blog
Email
Isleton
Area
by Can Nguyen -- Bob's Bait Shops
The weather has changed from hot to cold within a week. It was hot at the beginning of the week and cooled off with the temperature differece about more than 10 degrees. The fall has begun. Last week and it was supposed to be cool but it was not. The water temperature is still above 70 degrees. It is not comfortable temperature for either striped bass or salmon run during the fall.
Fishing for striped bass was slower than usual with not much good size of striped bass caught the entire week. Besides, grass shrimp bait has not available for at least three weeks already. From Bay Point to Sherman Island, Decker Island or Rio Vista Bridge, striped bass reports were slow and there was not much good size striped bass harvested during the week. The water was very clear but there are too much weeds and debris flowing along the river over the entire Delta area. It is tough to troll for striped bass with such conditions. There are more chances to cross the weeds or debris while trolling and it is time consuming to get rid of the debris from the lures.
Fishing for black bass was still very good from Vieira's Resort to the Isleton Bridge. Live minnows or live mud suckers were the best live bait to catch black bass. Of course crank bait or artificial worms also work well.
Catfish fishing was also very good in Georgiana Slough, Isleton Bridge, or in Mokelumne Rivers from B&W Resort to the river split to South and North Mokelumne River.
The Rio Vista bass derby is one week away.
It will be on the second weekend of October.
Many bait stores are getting ready to stock
up bait but due to high demand, there will
always be short on baits especially grass
shrimp, fresh shad, live mud suckers, or
live bull heads. Be sure to call to your
favorite bait store before going to fish
so you don’t be surprised when your
favorite baits are not available.
This weekend will be the first
time Isleton has boat racing activity at the
Isleton public fishing pier. It will be very
crowded on this weekend, but come out and enjoy
the races! Visit the website: www.deltaboatracing.com.
Best luck to you and have a nice coming weekend.
Antioch-Oakley
Area
by Chris Lauritzen -- Lauritzen Yacht Harbor
The weather will once again dominate my fishing report. This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday there was barely a breath of wind any where in the Bay Area.
If you were driving west bound on Highway 4 over Willow Pass Road as far as the eye could see the water was mirror flat this past weekend that is not the case right now (Tuesday) morning. It looks like it wants to rain with high cloud cover and a stiff south west wind. By Wednesday we are suppose to have temperatures back in the mid 80’s with once again flat water.
The water was flat enough this past weekend that black bass fisherman fishing in Dutch Slough and Big Break area to see the water boiling with lots of under size stripers stirring up the water presumably attacking bait balls at the same location.
Because we haven’t seen any frost yet, both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers are staying very warm. From Broad Slough to False River the temperature range on the San Joaquin River is in the 71 – 73 degrees or higher. I believe the Sacramento River is similar.
Frank Czyz Sr. and his son Frank Jr. make a good team fishing in seniors fishing boat. About two weeks ago Walt Compomizzo took father and son out for a little of his style of night Delta striper fishing. As I reported that was a huge success.
Fast forward to this past weekend when Frank Sr. dropped his boat into the water Friday night so that he could fish the outgoing current at night like he did several weeks earlier. Frank did go out to have the time of his life catching eight stripers to 10 lbs all on the sand bar south of West Island on the San Joaquin River. Frank did go out fishing early this past Saturday morning after spending the night in the back of his van. He was off the water by 9:00 am declaring that he will never fish during daylight hours ever again I don’t think he had a single bump that morning. While fishing Friday night Frank was plugging with top water baits.
The water in the harbor continues to stay incredibly clear. At the launching ramp we still have visibility in the 5-7-foot range. That is got to be pretty good for those that think they want to try some trolling.
This is also the time of year that you want to start saving your striper and sturgeon heads for crabbing which is now a little over a month away.
Don’t for get that the Rio Vista Fish Festival starts this next Friday October 9, 10 & 11. See you on the Delta!
Chris Lauritzen
Lauritzen's
Yacht Harbor
Website