San Francisco Bay Fishing Report

On Tuesday 11-3 John Akina of Oyster Point Bait, Tackle and Deli said they have had no ill effects from the oil spill on the peninsula shores of the bay. Fishing pressure has been light despite the great weather, but there are schools of stripers chasing small bait along the shoreline. Akina observed herring or anchovies jumping out of the water this afternoon in response to a mass striper attack. He said there weren't many birds hitting the surface, and pier anglers haven't figured out to come off of the pier and work the shoreline. The pier has been limited to shark and ray action.
Mike's Bait in Oakland reported the oil spill has affected local fishing with Bay Farm Island, the Oakland Harbor and 7th Street Pier off limits for fishing. The shoreline areas of Alameda should reopen very shortly. The San Leandro Harbor is open and there have been stripers to 27-inches taken on bullheads, ghost shrimp, pile worms or blood worms. There have been a few sturgeon landed in the same area of the marina. The oil spill has left them with a supply of rotting ghost shrimp due to the lack of angler access. They continue to sell loads of bullheads for the San Pablo shoreline.
Warren Howe at Bay Tackle in El Cerrito reported some large stripers in the 15 to 20-pound range have been taken from the Pinole and Eckley Piers in San Pablo Bay with large mudsuckers, bullheads or the live smelt jigged from the piers. These fish have been found on both tides. There have been few fish plugged from the banks in Crockett. A few small stripers have been taken from Point Isbell on RatLTraps or hair raisers. Bullheads have been the top baits, but they have been hard to keep in the shop and are in short supply some days.

Party boats continue to post good scores throughout the bays. The Wet Spot and the New Huck Finn out of Emeryville fishing inside the bay with 13 anglers today for over a fish a rod with 15 halibut to 15-pounds, 3bass to 5-pounds and a 25-pound leopard shark on Sunday. James on the Cal Dawn fished the North bay and reported 34 stripers to 10 pounds and 4 halibut fishing from the Brothers to Pt Pinole. He has both bay and at least one rockfish trip available this week.
Keith Fraser of Loch Lomond Bait in San Rafael said things were pretty good over the weekend with one skill picking up a limit of halibut at Paradise and some other fish taken at Red Rock. He is quoted to say, "Not great but pretty damn good". He said there were bass everywhere in all of the normal spots in San Pablo Bay with pluggers or trollers doing best on this series of small tides, but the bite on the anchor and drifting will pick up again on Wednesday with the larger tides.
Joel Sinkay at Leonard's Bait in Port Sonoma said the water in San Pablo Bay has really cleared up with the smaller tides, and there have been several small stripers taken from the shorelines in Port Sonoma on bullheads. There were a couple of sturgeon landed in Sonoma Creek on bullheads. A 28-inch halibut was taken at the Corregidor by a kayak anglers with a 32-inch flattie at the Petaluma River Train Trestle on Leonards grass shrimp. Sinkay said shrimping is getting each day, and he is getting a steady supply of larger bullheads.
Private boaters are reporting an excellent striper bite for fish to 20-pounds with the best action at the top of the tide through the turn of the outgo on live bullheads along the Rodeo shorelines.

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