| There are many differences from saltwater fly fishing | | | | Salmon and steelhead are more likely caught from |
| in Northern California and fly fishing a local stream. The | | | | Monterey Bay northward to the Oregon border and |
| rod is longer, reel is larger, and saltwater rated. The line | | | | beyond. Jetties and points are the best places to take |
| is often a shooting head with running line behind it and | | | | them. Like the striper any shiner especially an anchovy |
| the flies are demonstratively bigger. But the major | | | | imitation will be your best bet. Unless they are feeding |
| possible catch is worth the expense, the striped bass, | | | | on the surface use the weighted line to get about half |
| salmon, and steelhead. They come into shallow water | | | | way down from the surface. You can usually judge |
| in pursuit of anchovies and other baitfish. | | | | the water deep from the terrain you are fishing from. If |
| The striped bass is limited to around the San Francisco | | | | it is a gentle sloping beach that terrain generally goes |
| Bay area. They use the bay in transit to spawning | | | | on into the water. If it is a point the water gets much |
| grounds in the Sacramento River watershed. | | | | deeper from shore. If fishing from a jetty or a point |
| Anchovies are their main diet. If you ever see a flock | | | | count to ten then strip back your fly. Try that for a |
| of seagull hovering and diving over an area, go there | | | | while and you have no luck, count to twenty. Continue |
| quickly because they are feeding off the scraps of | | | | this method until you start catching rockfish. Then you |
| some school of feeding fish. Chances are the fish are | | | | know you're near the bottom and go back up to the |
| stripers but whatever the species it is a premium | | | | previous number unless you like catching lingcod and |
| opportunity to get in some good fishing. | | | | other similar species. |