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Updated April 23

DELTA, Sacramento side — Despite most six pack captains leaving for San Francisco Bay, white sturgeon remains ‘en masse’ in Suisun Bay with the only limiting factor being the ability to stay down without being grassed out. Captain Steve Mitchell of Hook’d Up Sport Fishing and Captain Joey Gamez of Golden State Sport Fishing reported over a dozen slot-limit to oversized diamondbacks to the boat over the weekend, but the ‘you have to find a location with 200 yards or so without grass on the bottom.’ For striped bass, Captain Jeff Soo Hoo of Soo Hoo Sport Fishing reported the fish are both moving in and moving out of the Delta, and it’s a matter of locating the schools. The striper bite slowed after the river cooled and rose from the recent storm with the best action in the warmer waters of the afternoons by trolling or with live bait. Largemouth bass are feeding on crawdads in the north Delta, and a Puzzle Bait, a combination of a spinnerbait and a chatterbait, 6-inch Senkos or flipping a Brush Hog are working for fish to 8 pounds.

DELTA, San Joaquin side — An unfortunate boating accident occurred during a high school qualifying event in the south Delta on Sunday morning with two boats colliding, resulting in six injured anglers including one in critical condition. Striped bass to 26 inches have been roaming the central Delta, and many are spawned out males returning to San Francisco Bay. For largemouth bass, topwater walking baits are effective in the wind, but with the fish staging on the flats around tule clumps, and 6-inch green pumpkin Senkos unweighted or on a wacky-rig are effective as the frog bite has yet to materialize.

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