Port of Sac Questions

I never fish here before, but I'm heading out there this Sunday on my kayak. What do type of lures/color works for Striped bass?

Silver/Blue 3/4oz Rat-L-Trap, Rapala Bomber Long A, Rapala deep diver Broken Back blue/chrome with orange belly, Pearl 4, 5, or 6.5 inch Big Hammers! Also those YozukuiI think darker colors at night, lighter colors in the day. I thinks greens/ chartreuse and even firetiger patterns work too.

If you want to slay em, live eels, bullheads, splittails, mudsuckers, grass shrimp!

Most of the locals to the port will recommend drift fishing live bait for stripers. The guys who are REAL good will catch baby bluegill and use them for bait (you can also catch mudsuckers there on the shore and use them for bait as well) or you can buy Jumbo Minnows and Mudsuckers at Penny Rod and Bait (near the port in west sac.) Honestly, cut dead frozen anchovies and even nightcrawlers will work too (and catch the occasional catfish.)

If you are jonesin for exercise, you can troll the above-mentioned lures too of course.

I launched and stayed in the area between the bridge and the launch on Sun. I had several hits on a 6" Pacific Chovie (look it up) on a 6oz lead head with an 8/0 hook. At least 10 hits and two fish on.  I used the heavy lead on purpose to keep the lure at the bottom with no guess work to know where I was for depth. I had one fish on a 4" swimbait too. I was trolling only 1 mph which is pretty slow. I moved faster when I saw nothing on the FF. When I found a large concentration of striper on the FF I dropped jumbo minnows on them. Landed one that way and lost one. Several hits but no stick that way too. When you get hir or see the fish on your screen stay on them and keep your swimbaits in front of them. If the fish move, move around till you find them again. Good luck, Rob

Thanks everyone for the great tip/info!! I'm going to rig up one rod for mudsuckers and the other rod with a rat-L-trap and see what happens!

Check out this link for a great write up on fishing the port.

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=42846.msg470404#msg470404