Your Interactive Guide To The San Joaquin Delta
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The Deltais home to Bluegill , Readear, Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Striped Bass , Crappie, Bullhead Catfish , Channel Catfish, and Shad, Salmon, Steelhead, and Sturgeonruns as well as delectable crawdads. Fishing Derbys are held through out the Delta during the winter and spring offering substantial prizes to winners, see events for dates. The Striped Bass migrate through the Delta twice a year, usually in November and May. Though beautiful fish are caught year round. A Crawdad Festival is held in Isleton each year on Father's Day weekend. With a bounty of delicious crust eans to enjoy. With a thousand miles of waterways to explore and enjoy its easy to "get away fromit all" and enjoy the peace and solitude. Angler Guide Service| Local Bait Shops | Other Fishing Links | Delta Fish Species (fish list)
CATFISH(Bullhead, Channel, and White)

Channel Catfish Black Bullhead Bait : Best are clams, anchovies, nightcrawlers, sti nk baits, dough baits, sardines, chicken or turkey livers, and bloodworms. Tackle : Should be reasonably strong, about 15 to 20 pound te st line. Striped bass can also take these baits, so be prepared. Best Season : Fishing for Catfish is productive all year, but the summer months are usually best. Best Areas : Almost any place in the Delta produces catfish. Threemile, Sevenmile, Georgianam Cache, and Miner Sloughs, the Sacr amento and San Joaquin Rivers, Frank's Track SRA, and Sherman Lake are good. Equally good are Old and Middle Ri vers, White Slough and most other cuts and sloughs of the Delta .Try a spot for 1/2 hour, no luck, move on. Depths : About three to twenty feet, deeper in winter. Regulations : Season - all year Bag Limit - none Minimum size - none Fishing in the California Delta http://www.sacdelta.com/fishing /

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BLUEGILL Best Areas : Bluegills prefer quiet, weedy waters where they can hide and feed. In the daytime the smaller fish are close to s hore in coves under an overhanging limb or under a dock. The larger prefer the adjacent de eper waters in the daytime but move into shallow areas in the morning and evening to feed. Back to Top
STRIPED BASS Bait : Best are Achovies, threadfin sha d, sardines, bloodworms, grass and ghost shrimp, mudsuckers, sculpins (bu ll heads), crayfish. When using cut bait, thread hook so that fresh side is most exposed; some anglers use nylon netting or thread to keep bait on hook. Tackle : 3 to 7 inch Rebels and Rapalas are standard lures; check with local bait shops for current information. Test line should be reasonably strong, about 10 to 30 pound. Best Season : The spring spawning run up the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers is probably the best season in the Delta, but the fall run is also a heav ey producer of lunker-size bass, the fall and sppring runs almost seem to merge, creating good fishing fr om September to June, and resident stripers are caught during the summer. Best Areas : For boat fishing: Sherman Lake when the water depth is less than five feet; the power lines on the Sacramento River within two hours of low tide and two hours of high tide (fish the incoming tide); Threemile Slough where it empties into the Sacramento River and where it empties into the San Joaquin River; Decker Island on the Sacramento Rive r on the west side of the island, on the north end of the island near the entrance to Threemile Slough, and on the south side of the island near the pilings; the dairy located approximately a mi le and a half north of the Brannan Island SRA park entrance on the east side of the Sacramento River (look for a sandy beach with some trees - fish about fifty yards offshore and south of the beach about half to three- quarters of a mile), Franks Tract SRA, Middle and Old Rivers, San Andreas shoals on the San Joaqui n, White Slough, the Mokelumne River from the San Joaquin to Hwy 12 and near the Cross Delta Channel. Depths : Regulations : Season - all year Bag Limit - 2 daily (and in possession) Minimum size - 18 in. Back to Top
STURGEON Fishing in the California Delta http://www.sacdelta.com/fishing /

2 of 4 4/20/2016 3:57 PMSize : White Sturgeon as much as 1300 pounds; green Sturgeon as much as 350 pounds. Bait : Ghost and grass shrimp are usually considered best, but sturgeon will also bite on shad minnoes, crayfish and other baits.. Tackle : A medium to heavy weight rod with a sensitive tip and conventional bait casting reel is probably most common, though many people use spinni ng reels. Use a 30 to 50 pound test line with wire leaders and single or double hooks, and sliding sinker setup. They strike hard!. Best Season : Usually from the beginning of winter, when the water starts to get muddy and looks like chocolate syrup, until early summer. Best Areas : On the Sacramento River, the Decker Is land entrance to Threemile Slough, off the old dairy, the Rio Vista bridge, the Isleton bridge. Sa n Pablo and suisun Bays and the Mothball Fleet are prime areas; Cache Slough and off Liberty Island are also very good. Depths : Sturgeon have been caught in water from 14 to 80 feet deep; usually deep holes are best. Regulations : Season - all year Bag Limit - 1daily (and in possession) Minimum size - 46 in. Maximum size - 6 ft. Back to Top

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Acanthogobius flavimanus Alosa sapidissima American shad Bigscale logperch Black bullhead Black crappie Fishing in the California Delta http://www.sacdelta.com/fishing /

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Much of the fishing information was provided courtesy of Chuck's Bait & Tackle of Bethel Island, The Trap of Rio Vista, Bob's B ait Shop, Delta Fish Finders of Isleton, and my good friend Mark Pacini (who left us in 2007). Fishing in the California Delta http://www.sacdelta.com/fishing /

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