Feb/March............

Many will be down in the Delta all winter but some will be snooping around at the mouth of the American River right in down town 'Sacto'.

Other will be up at Star Bend (~20 miles up from the mouth) on the lower Feather River.

April/May is the big spawning migration orginating from somewhere south of Sacramento and then ends up near Colusa on the Sacramento River.

This is a real circus with jet boat central but there are more stripers there at that time than any other place on the West Coast.


I have been in the fishing tackle business for a long time and part of it was at West Capitol Rod & Gun in West Sac. ~1970

For a short time I even guided for a hunting & fishing club you joined like Wilderness Unlimited. They had several 'Ski Barges'(~20' outboard skiff) docked along the Sacrament River. I was a pretty good old 'Sardiner' in those days so I ran one of the boats at Clacksburg, south of Sacto on the big river.

I even commercial crayfished for one spring in the river. Well, that another story..........


http://espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/..._stripers.html

http://espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoo...nto_River1.jpg

ESPN pic