west cost bass? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

PoPin Plug · 11-01-2006, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Brother Brian

San Francisco bay has some very good striper fishing (transplants) but I don't know of any other areas.

san fran?!?!?! i would think a weeeee bit warm, but cool

bttfish · 11-01-2006, 03:14 PM

I heard the same thing. Someone transplanted Stripers to California.

MarshCappa · 11-01-2006, 03:16 PM

When I was working in KS they had these hybreds called Wipers. A state run program brought in Male stripers who fertilized the native female white bass eggs. I caught a bunch of them in the reservoirs out there and they were really fun on fresh water gear. Basically what we would consider schoolie size here is keeper size in the Mid West. Considering there is nothing to do in KS this was my most exciting thing to do out there.

Mike P · 11-01-2006, 03:36 PM

Most of the west coast actually has cooler water temperatures. Even off Santa Barbara and as far south as LA, it rarely gets out of the 60s.

SF Bay is freakin' cold.

PoPin Plug · 11-01-2006, 04:07 PM

realy!

that would definatly explane alcatras

spence · 11-01-2006, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike P

SF Bay is freakin' cold.

Tell me about it, went for a little swim back in 1962

-spence

ThrowingTimber · 11-01-2006, 04:29 PM

Good fish in Nor Cal. Right not very warm, and always windy. They like yellow superstrikes there too

No, humidity though. I'm pretty sure they start to peter out above Oregon, they're there but spotty.

RNC · 11-01-2006, 05:03 PM

New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas has freshwater stripers. The state record for NM was 55+ lbs in a man made resovoir. Shoreline fishing in the desert for stripers is fun just watch out for the rattlesnakes.

baldwin · 11-01-2006, 08:57 PM

Saltwater stripers were transplanted in California, Oregon. Sacramento River, San Francisco Bay area have them. Also, they are indigenous to rivers on the eastern Gulf coast in Florida, Alabama. That population was once continuous with the East Coast population, but drop in sea level brought Florida out of the water, separating the two populations. South Florida reaches too far into warm waters to allow mixing of the two populations.

RIJIMMY · 11-06-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by PoPin Plug

san fran?!?!?! i would think a weeeee bit warm, but cool

Go there in June - August and say that.
frieken cold....

bigshrimpin · 11-06-2006, 02:10 PM

I live near Sacramento and it's over 100 degrees regularly during the summer June - August, but it'll be 55 degrees and foggy on the water . . . less than 60miles away outside the golden gate bridge.

cow tamer · 11-06-2006, 02:22 PM

Sunday morning 9:30, ESPN2, Addictive Fishing Show.
Shows host caught a striper while fishing an inlet in Louisiana.

Crow · 11-07-2006, 10:57 PM

I lived and fished the SF area for 14 years, so I have some firsthand experience. In the mid 80's it was decent fishing with fish to about the mid 20's, but mostly smaller. I fished the open beaches in SF proper but there were guys who fished south of the city off the cliffs and on the rocks that did very well on surface plugs. In the mid 90's fishing went in the crapper and it was hardly worth investing in a new spool of mono.
It is almost all daytime fishing and its mostly 'Mickys' a fairly large metal in a Charlie Graves style. Hair raisers which is a bucktail and various surface plugs: PP, pikies, darters and poppers.
The wind never stops blowing in your face and sorry to disagree with you Throwin Timber

but its a pea soup fog there most of the time and that is as humid as it gets. I've been away for a few years and things have improved. Oh also the normal surf has 4 or 5 waves breaking at all times, it is like a storm surf on the east coast and the waves usually fairly large.

PoPin Plug · 11-08-2006, 02:42 PM

you know how the have that show East v.s. West shark fishing... Now that i know the west coast has striper i say they should have East v.s. West striper challange!!!

that would kick a$$

also do the still eat the same things like those slimy eel's???

bigshrimpin · 11-20-2006, 02:27 AM

East vs. West Coast striped bass fishing is not even close to being a fair challenge. I can catch a dozen 20lb bass anyday of the week back east. I haven't caught one twenty pounder in 3 years of fishing out here . . . my biggest is 32" this year. There are some neat spots, but the water is like chocolate milk most of the year.