Napa River Skunk

    Had a few hours to kill and hit the lower Napa River in Vallejo on Wednesday for a few hours.  Swung and missed twice but did not apprear to be many stripers where I was, and I fished mostly just above the Highway 37 bridge.  Still great to be out on the water!  Huge outgoing tide made the cruise back down river a snap!   At one point two hunters came along and slunk out on the bank near me and ended up blowing off a bunch of rounds at something.  I did not see a dog with them and have no idea how they intended on retrieving anything they shot from the shallow little bay they were shooting into.   By the way why are these crabs all the way to highway 37 bridge in Napa?  I wonder just how much fresh water they are allowing to get intot the bay these days, I have a bad feeling about how our water is being divided these days and have a really bad feeling that it is only going to get worse!

Way to give it a try.  My friends saw some boaters with limits of BIG Stripers (30's and 40's in length) last weekend and they caught them in San Pablo bay.  They should be in the river very soon.  Thanks for the report Jim.

Thanks for the report & pics. I hit Cuttings Warf further up river with the young one last Saturday. Trolled and casted swimbaits for a couple hours for nada. Saw nothing caught from shore either. The locals we catching bullheads for bait. I'll probably take a trap next time I go.

Congrats on getting out!!!! The whole water thing has me very worried!! Thanks for the report!

Badog

   By the way why are these crabs all the way to highway 37 bridge in Napa?

Mitten?  or some other kind? 

Wanna get out with you sometime in that Napa area.  You do weekends, or mostly weekdays?

  mostly weekday afternoons these days, we usually go the boat in sausalito on weekended.  Off to Baja December 11-January 5th! 

Thanks for the report, Zin.

We were nailing the stripers up by Cutting's about a month ago, but have been back twice since for two really slow days.

We also pulled out two small dungies from that area...and I caught a legal sized dungie all the way up in the Petaluma, by the 101 over pass (released, of course.)

Have fun in Mexico!

  had anybody ever seen a dungie this far up river before?