| Rio
Vista - Isleton
Bob’s
Bait Report www.themasterbaiter.com
It was very nice last week and continuing this week with temperature climbing gradually to 70 degree. The longer the good weather is, the better change for water getting clearer.
So far the water is still muddy but it will clear up in the coming weeks. This should be more changes for striped bass run earlier and sturgeon bites will be hot in most parts of the Delta from Sherman Island up to Cache slough, or Sacramento area.
Fishing for striped bass was slow last week due to muddy and cold water. However there was some good striped bass reported in Mokelumne river on pile worm or ghost shrimp.
Sturgeon fishing was good at the Dump Gate in Isleton last week. Most of these sturgeon were caught at night during the low tide on either ghost shrimp or grass shrimp.
Fishing for sturgeon required a lot of patient and for some it was boring since it takes very longer time to have a bite. Most sturgeon bite are very light. There were a lot of changes to miss setting the hook and sturgeon likely gone when they bite the hook. Using double hook leader has more change for sturgeon hooked itself than a single hook leader.
Steal leader with built-in slider sinker is best since it hold the bait lay down to the bottom river. Four different good baits are using to fish for sturgeon are grass shrimp, ghost shrimp, lamprey eel, and salmon roe. Herring is good from Bay Point to Sherman Island.
Lamprey eel works best from Rio Vista Bridge towards upstream. Grass shrimp bait work best in most parts of the Delta while ghost shrimp bait works good from Rio Vista to Sacramento area or in Mokelumne River areas.
Due to high demand sudden last weekend, most bait stores ran out of bait earlier. Grass shrimp bait is getting smaller and hard to keep them alive. For that reason, grass shrimp bait won’t last more than three days in captive.
Hope this coming week will be better for fishing striped bass and sturgeon. The weather is getting better and warmer. Our store will open 7 days a week again starting next week.
Best luck to you and have a nice coming weekend.
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Bass
fishing is on the verge of an explosion, and like clock work anglers
are out in Big numbers. Try Pepper Jigs and
Spinner baits on ledges adjacent to dead end sloughs or
flats. Or near the entrances to these areas with Speed Traps and
Radar 10's for the quality black bass. The best action is found
throughout the many areas of the Central Delta. There are still
a few coming from the Discovery Bay area and in the West Delta,
Big Break and Frank's are starting to be Hot. 
