Super Bowl Weekend on the Delta

Mark, JR and I went out for Sturgeon again this past weekend. We left Saturday night got to the launch around 11 PM. As we were cruising in the dark to where we wanted to start fishing, we ran aground in 1.5 ft. of water. It was low tide and we got too close to an island. We tried getting out but we were stuck. We waited for about an hour and a half and the tide started to come up. We used the anchor to pull us to deeper water and we were out.

We continued out to PG&E, fished for an hour or two for nothing. Then, we headed out to Honker Bay where we watched the sun come up. There we had no luck with keeper sturgeon only a couple of shakers that JR pulled up. Mark did manage to get a keeper striper though. Next, we originally planned to call it a day and watch the Super Bowl but we said "da ell wid dat". We wanted to fish. We tried Chain Island and again, no luck except a bunch of flounders and I think JR had another shaker sturgeon there too.

Finally before we called it a day we tried one more spot in Broad Slough and there JR pulled in a keeper striper and Mark, two big ones - ~26" and the other maybe 28".

Here are the pics:

JR's shaker Sturgy



Marvin's shaker Sturgy


JR with another shaker



A big ship that came close to us as we were anchored at Chain Island

Mark's 26 incher burly hook in da lipsch

Mark and the 26 incher

Mark wrapped up the day with this hog. This is his Ben Affleck pose. Not the real Ben Affleck. Look at the picture below. It's a guy on Fish Sniffer who catches lots of big Stripers on topwater lures who looks like Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck's fish is bigger... hehe.

Dad's Los Vaqueros Monster Striper

This is the monster striped bass that Dad pulled out of Los Vaqueros last week. He and his buddy took out a rental boat and he was trolling a hair raiser. He played it for a half an hour before landing it to the boat. They had no net. I don't know the length but I think he said it was a 17 lb'er.

Dad's Big Clifton Court Striper

Here's a pic from Dad's camera. This is his 31 inch striped bass he caught at Clifton Court Forebay.