Port of Sacramento

Hi,

I am new to the club, and to kayak fishing, having made just one prior post.  I am trying to get to that magic number 10 to see what the club is like on the inside!  Lots of good information, I am sure.

Anyway, I have been fishing primarily out of the Port of Sacramento.  (I capsized the one time I went to the ocean, and decided to stay away from that environment until I am more competent with the kayak.)    I have caught some shaker stripers in the Port, but have yet to hook one that got the adrenaline pumping.  I have been trolling plugs and swimbaits. 

My question:  Am I doing something wrong, or are the bigger fish just not in, yet?

Thanks,
Dane

Im down in the napa river, its still slower down here although the sturgeon are red hot in the bay.

One of the best threads written here. Just search and you'll find a ton of info about launch locations

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=42846.0

Thanks for the thread Fishcomb, so much useful info there. 

Figured I would share that I finally caught some keeper stripers out of the Port on Wednesday (10/28) using a standard swimbait.  Similar to you, I've had plenty of shakers so far but just recently have hooked into some bigger fish.  Also biked along the American river trail and saw a few people on the bank with keepers... Might be worth giving it another shot now

One of the best threads written here. Just search and you'll find a ton of info about launch locations

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=42846.0

Wow, that is an excellent thread! Wish I had found that before the 2 times I skunked there. Now I have some work to do with that as a general guide!

I went back out on Monday, optimistic after seeing flyingfisher caught some recently.  I trolled during the incoming afternoon tide.  One shaker striper and one largemouth.  I saw a couple of nice sized stripers jump, but they wouldn't bite for me.  Next time.

I know of nice stripers (22"-30") being caught in SF Bay, CM creek as recently as two days ago so its possible that they are just a but slower moving up this year. I'm sure by the time I post this there are more bigs up in the river. Good luck!

Yeah just tried again a few days ago and caught a few shakers but no decent ones.  There have been a few recent YouTube videos of people catching some decent ones though so that's promising.

In other news, I ride my bike a lot past sac state and have seen some keepers caught soaking bait way up the american... officially confused by stripers this year

Went out this evening. One guy leaving had a nice, big salmon. I fished for about 2 hours with some other guys. Salmon jumped around us every 5 minutes that entire time, I kid you not. It was like a sick game of taunting. No hookups.

Were you jigging at the end of channel?  Did you striper fish?

I was jogging in the near the lock under/near the bridge. The end of the canal had some other guys. There were 3 of us on kayaks “in the middle” jigging for salmon. I didn’t try for striper since I only had 2 hours til sunset.