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Monday’s top of the scroll: As pro anglers leave, Delta’s focus turns to another bass

Posted by: Maven on March 15, 2010 at 7:25 am

From the Stockton Record:

“The great thing about the Delta, they say, is you don’t need a $50,000 boat and thousands of bucks worth of gear to land a real nice fish.

Not if you’re after striped bass. “He’s every man’s trophy fish,” said John Banks, 76. “You can catch him from the bank, you can catch him from a boat, you can catch him from the pier, and you might get a record 60-, 70-pound fish. The promise of a great catch is right there. That keeps a lot of guys going.”

This past weekend, elite tournament fishermen zipped across the Delta in pursuit of a different catch: the prized largemouth bass, which thrives in warm weed-choked back sloughs of the heavily pumped estuary.

But even as the pros cast their lines, locals were gearing up for a fight over a new attempt to eliminate protections for stripers – a fish that has suffered in the Delta as we know it today by losing much of the open-water habitat it needs. … “

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March 15, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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