Collinsville used to be a hotspot for sturgeon. Hooked up almost everytime I fished there but landing it was almost impossible. The hot baits we used were mud shrimp, ghost shrimp, and good ole grass shrimp. I caught my biggest sturgeon underneath the Benicia Bridge (off the bank) on the smallest grass shrimp I’ve ever seen; could barely string them on the hook. I fished the Grizzly Island bridge way before they built that little pier and before the Gov. put up No Trespassing songs throughout the whole Delta. That pretty much ended my Delta fishing. All our “spots” are posted No Trespassing now- thanks CA.
Another post of yours you mentioned pile worms and how small they got. Word. And talk about what the junk bite stripers love.
But man, i’ve thrown down, and out, ghost/pile. Eel/pile. All kinds of combos. Nothing for me has ever done better than grass shrimp in our waters. Slabs of herring does good down in san pablo bay during certain times. But grass shrimp always was king for me. From the fleet on up. Trouble up high where i’m at now is you would have to drive for days to score grass shrimp. Done it but not really doable when you wanna just go out.
Talk about shutting down spots to fish from the bank. They were seriously going to shut down the rest of sherman island road, that didn’t happen, would have been so many pissed off people. I’ve partied my ass off on that road overnight trip bankin it. Fucking wind though! But what really sucked when I lived in stockton was they basically shut down all of the 5 side of the 160.
can’t park on the road now because people are fucking pigs and so they shut it down. At least as of like 6yrs ago last i heard. Might have changed but there was the biggest fucking dickhead deputy sheriff that would cruise that stretch even before they shut er down. That made it stressfull even before they shut down parking on the road. Hood/franklin spot was the bomb. I’ve caught plenty big ones just up river on the other side at clarksburg. a bunch of weirdos hang there.
I blended in great there everytime don’t get me wrong. Lol. I’ve caught monsters on that stretch of the sac. It’s the sturgeon highway. Really hot a few times of the year.