Here's a darn good report from Saturday: "Hey Willie!! We Had two limits of halibut and stripers by 10:30 today! Kyle and Craig Perry did well today! Fishing mostly around Hog." These guys spent more time driving to and from than they did on the catching. Nice job, Perrys.
Here's a few selected pictures from "Camp Clarksburg" and their weekend stay. Travis Barton did a fine job as netboy for his crew of fishkillers. My understanding is that they fished within a few miles of Hog.
Kelley Roy sent over this report from the water early yesterday afternoon: "Hey Willy
3 Hali 1 striper so far. Plus a huge bat ray lol. Marshals....Gages set up
Kelley" I believe that I heard Kelley and Herman ended up with four stripers along with the halibut. Gage's set up is likely the purple haze hootchy behind a Hot Spot flasher.
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It seems to be a fabulous Striper run. It brings back memories of the great runs for surf fisherman on beaches south of SF in the late 50's.
I've never seen so many stripers here. I'm sure it's happened before my time but I always assumed that most of those "it used to be better" stories were bull. It is damned good now. It is amazing how good the fishing can be when there's water in the river. Strangely there's lots of salmon and stripers. Like the instructions say, just add water. It's too bad the same instructions apply to agriculture.
Did some research... In the early '60's CA striper populations numbered 3 million adults. By early '90's counts were 775 thousand with 30% being hatchery raised fish. Contributing factors? Delta water diversion, pollution, illegal take, exotic aquatic organisms, and Bay fill projects (few marshes). It was even much better "back then", than what I remembered.
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