Brad Hood of "B & H guide Services" has retired Sturgeon fishing for the year after using his third tag for this 57".  He fished for about 20 minutes on the Napa River with Grass Shrimp.  He caught two shaker Bass then this bad boy and called it a day.  His coffee was still hot when he made it back to his truck.  It doesn't sound like a good time to 'STOP' Sturgeon fishing but hey to each his own.  Get out on the River and put some live bait on the bottom and you will catch fish.  He also marked about six fish in the hole he was fishing before he caught this one.

Sinkay's Marketing Solutions recently started doing the Fishing Reports for two local charter boats "The Cal-Dawn" and "The SoleMan".  If you would like to get info on what they have been catching as well as coupons for your next trip please sign up for both of their reports: 

Simply text "SOLEMAN" or "CALDAWN" to the # 22828 and then reply with your e-mail address. 

We pride ourselves with having the freshest bait on the bay.  As the only bait shop on the bay with their own shrimp boat we can live up to that claim.  We are open 365 days a year at 6:30am.  Come on down and say hi to a friendly face.

• Bait: Plenty of Live Grass Shrimp, Pile Worms and Mid-Shipmen.  We are loaded up with EEL and other frozen baits as well. 
• Napa River:  People have been trolling at the top of the tide for Striped Bass with Rattle-Traps and Broken Rebels (pearl white, chrome and blue).  The Sturgeon bite is still wide open see the picture on the left.  Brad said they are stacked up in there!  As we said last week there is a good boat launch at Cuttings Wharf as well as some great shore fishing.  Click here for a map!  
• Petaluma River: Rays, Bass and still Surgeon.  The Sturgeon have been jumping like crazy and you just have to weed through the Ray's to get to the Sturgeons. At low tide today Captain Joel saw a bunch of Bat Ray's just below the surface and says they are in abundance.         
• San Pablo Bay: 7 Gills have been spawning at the Pumphouse and we recommend only keeping the Male fish.  There are still Rays, Sturgeon (see pic below) and Bass here as well.   
• We recommend that you do not try to boat into our slough right now.  The mud is pretty thick and if you can just stop by before you launch.  We hate to see you guys mess up your engine kicking up mud on the bottom of a tide.  Until they dredge you gotta drive here before you launch.         

• Fish Alert: June 9th 
• Fish Alert: June 3rd 
• Fish Alert: May 19th 

•  Captain Joel's Fishing Minute Ep. 12 
• Captain Joel's Fishing Minute Ep. 11 
• Captain Joel's Fishing Minute Ep. 10