Delta - West Delta Continues to Improve

2004-09-15 Jack Chapman, Sacramento CSBA

The Fall Run of stripers seems to be slowly moving into the area joining our resident population. Our members that fish the bay report fish are being caught in San Pablo Bay by the Brothers and Sisters, in the Hamilton Flats, Napa River and Benicia. While the fishing is not wide open most members are getting at least a fish a rod. Our chapter’s striper expert, Mark Wilson, reports, “went striper trolling with me today down on the Old Dairy below Rio Vista. We only got to troll for a couple of hours, then we got blown off. Man do I hate the WIND!!! But, in those two hours we had around 10 hits for five keeper stripers at 19", 20", 8#, 9#, and 13#. A real short day for us.” Another of our members reports, “Went trolling down Rio Vista way today. I was hoping that Mark left some for the rest of us. I only managed 5 stripers to 6 pounds. It took me a while to figure out that my best Rainbow bomber had water in it and was not running properly. … I think I wasted a lot of time with a bad lure.”

Archived Delta Striper Reports

2004-10-27 Delta www.captaindon.com
Miss the Trash get the Fish I fished 3 days this past week with cancellations on Tuesday and Wednesday due to the storms. All 3 days were very productive with 18 Stripers being kept. These are the results of

2004-10-19 Delta Jack Chapman Sacramento CSBA
Stripers surge into the Delta The bass bite has been improving day by day, especially in the Southern Delta. I have received a numbers of reports of a “nice steady pick of 8-10 lb stripers today trolling broken

2004-09-27 Delta Jackson Chapman Sacramento CSBA
Stripers move in Stripers are moving into the system in ever increasing numbers. There are reports from both the Sacramento and San Joaquin sides of the delta of fish being caught. Most are being c

2004-09-15 Delta Tony Lopez Mc Avoy Bait
West Delta West Delta Stripers Increase in Numbers