If you're planning on using grass shrimp, eel or whatever bait you plan on, it is highly recommended you contact your bait shop and reserve your bait for Super Bowl weekend!
A listing of bait shops from Sacramento to the Bay can be found here.
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The latest word on the sturgeon bite is grass shrimp and eel are the productive baits with a few sturgeon here and there being taken at The Middle Grounds, Garnet Point, and Honker Bay. Other reports have surfaced pinpointing the bite-zone at 27-30 ft.
If you're planning on using grass shrimp, eel or whatever bait you plan on, it is highly recommended you contact your bait shop and reserve your bait for Super Bowl weekend! A listing of bait shops from Sacramento to the Bay can be found here.
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Entry forms for the 29th annual Original Sturgeon Derby have been mailed out to all the usual bait shops and additionally to Broadway Bait and to Sacramento Pro Tackle in Sacramento! Pick up an entry form or print one from the website.... either way, be sure to get your entry in! Be sure to check with Department of Fish and Game for the new sturgeon regulations that went into effect 1/1/13. The members of the Club are coming together and getting everything ready for this year's Derby! We are looking forward to another awesome turnout! Most people say the striper bite has turned off completely and the weather is just too cold right now...But not the old timers...they've just changed their tactics a bit!
I was told to take a lot of coffee, my balance beam and some small baits (splits & bullheads) and head out in the 40 - 45' depth range. They say the bites will be very light but to set that hook like you're hitting a home run! I'll be giving it a shot! See ya on the water! A friend of the club sent me this today so I'm passing it along! If you're in the Sacramento area check it out!
Sacramento Fisherman's Warehouse Thursday Seminar for Nov 29th: Sturgeon Fishing with "RT Hook" Jay Lopes Sturgeon fishing has been very good lately. Jay has been putting lots of sturgeon in the boat both keepers & over size fish! Come learn how to set up your equipment and what to use for bait? Also he will be talking about all the proposed new rules for sturgeon fishing in 2013? Don't miss this seminar if you want to catch some sturgeon! Seminar starts at 6 pm sharp! What's HOT? Sturgeon: from Martinez to Cache Slough! Lots of fish in the system! Stripers: Fish are moving into the delta in big numbers Trout: Berryessa as trout are up on the surface, Wragg Canyon HOT! From the discussions going on around the coffee pot....looks like sturgeon are being caught left and right in Honker Bay! Typical bait that you'd expect is doing the trick!
Also heard that the mouth of Cache Creek is full of diamond backs too...Good Luck out there! According to a few reliable sources this morning from around the coffee pot....
No bites at all yesterday just outside McAvoy Harbor using small and large splits ... but another member picked up 3 stripers up by Meeks in the teens and the smallest was 13 lbs. Bullheads were the hot ticket! Another old timer reminded us that now that the weather is getting colder there are balls of shad baitfish emerging further upstream and they'll be headed up to feed. |
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