Tips for fishing Sacramento delta

With all of next week off I was planning to hit the Sacramento delta for some stripper and possibly sturgeon action. I've fished the Tracy delta but this will be my first time fishing the Sacramento delta.

does anyone have any general tips for where to launch? good spots to fish during this time of the season? baits or lures that yield good results

Water is ripping in most places and muddy from what I have seen, so I have no recommendations at this time. Sorry.

Fish for Striper at the forebay! 

Outgoing tides are crazy fast. Stay off the major waterways and be safe! Stockton area might be a safer bet.

Outgoing tides are crazy fast. Stay off the major waterways and be safe! Stockton area might be a safer bet.

Any recommendations of areas with slow moving waters?

Franks Tract
Launch from Sugar Barge
Largemouth in the tulies and stripers in the breaks

Video of some stripers being caught a few weeks ago, can't figure out this location though

Sturgeon should be OK if you know of or can find a spot. The river in Sacramento is running high fast and chocolaty. If you want Stripers, you might try the Port in West Sacramento. It should be a lot more clear.

Shore  fishing in the willows now covered in water, used to use a cane pole with a coathanger on end in a goal post shape cast over the cane pole with your fishing line use jumbo minows big stripers Minnow Hole in South Sacramento used to be great for this.

Good fishing there but man that music is about awful.  Certainly is no Hank Williams playing.

I must be turning into an old guy!

Video of some stripers being caught a few weeks ago, can't figure out this location though

Looks like the sac just above the confluence with the feather.  They launched at Verona.  It's pretty blown out right now though.  Be safe out there!

Video of some stripers being caught a few weeks ago, can't figure out this location though

Looks like the sac just above the confluence with the feather.  They launched at Verona.  It's pretty blown out right now though.  Be safe out there!

I wasn't planning to head out til some time mid- next week. I'll try and call ahead to see what the conditions on the water are. Thanks for clarifying the location!

Good fishing there but man that music is about awful.  Certainly is no Hank Williams playing.

I must be turning into an old guy!

I agree about the music.. I guess giant stripers like rap music.

Good fishing there but man that music is about awful.  Certainly is no Hank Williams playing.

I must be turning into an old guy!

I agree about the music.. I guess giant stripers like rap music.

    LMAO....   +1   

If I was looking for sturgeon, I'd head out of McAvoy's in West Pittsburg, out the mouth of the harbor, then turn west and go about a half mile and a maybe 100-150 yds off shore, there's a channel there ~15-20 ft deep, it's out of the main flow and may be a safer spot. Hooked my biggest sturgeon in there (lost it at the yak after a snare flub, but it was 60"+).  A little farther off shore and you get into water ~5 ft. I've caught stripers in that area using bullheads

Big Caution, depending on flow, you may have a difficult paddle to get back to the harbor on a big outgoing tide.