Striped Bass Tagging: Results of Week 3

Posted by Marty Gingras on 4/17/2009, 3:34 pm
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Hi all, We just finished the third week of tagging striped bass. As usual, we captured fish using fyke traps out of Knights Landing. Unlike Weeks 1 and 2, we did not drift gill nets out of Antioch. In 40 trap-days (i.e., 10 traps fishing 4 days) we captured about 110 legal-sized (a few in the 90-100 cm FL size range) and about 20 sublegal-sized striped bass. We didn't have much bycatch (no salmonids), but got some American shad and one legal-sized white sturgeon. Water temperature is still in the mid-50's. On a really good day we can get 1000 striped bass in a single trap, so --- like the last two weeks --- it's still pretty slow. Thanks Marty Gingras Supervising Biologist (Fisheries) California Department of Fish and Game Bay Delta Region 4001 North Wilson Way Stockton, California 95205 Phone (209) 948-3702 FAX (209) 946-6355 email mgingras@dfg.ca.gov

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