My wife, Christy and I wanted to hot the Napa River and invited SAW1 (Steve) to fish with us since he wanted to fish from a kayak again. We met at 10am and launched when the tide was at it's lowest point. Needless to say, it was a muddy launch. LOL! No problem though. We headed across the river and it was slow going. We hit the opening of a slough and we started getting hits. Lots of "dinks were being caught. I caught over 10 dinks and no keepers during this time. Christy had quite a few hits but not hook-ups. SAW1 was catching some dinks as well, but managed to pull in a keeper over 18". Christy and SAW1 headed back across the river to another slough while I stayed where the fish were biting. I caught a few more dinks and SAW1 and Christy came back to where I was with some good news and bad news. The good news was, SAW1 caught a keeper along with a few more dinks. :-) The bad news was, he caught himself too! He had a treble hook stuck deep in the palm of his hand. I have experience removing hooks from hooked anglers. I have only hooked myself once and that was earlier this year, trout fishing. I could not perform the hook removal process on myself, so I taught someone else how, who had never done it. It went well. The hook removal from SAW1 went well too :-)
We went back to fishing and it slowed way down until we headed back in. We caught a few more dinks and I finally caught a keeper! So we took home 3 in all. It was another great trip :-) Until next time. Enjoy the pictures!!!

There are quite a few party boats that do "potluck" style fishing through the summer. That would be targeting halibut and striped bass with live bait. If you are primarily looking to fish for striped bass, talk with the skipper about which tides would be best for stripers. Generally bigger tides for stripers smaller for halibut. You could try Cal Dawn out of Berkeley, or the Happy Hooker also Berkeley. The bass Tub still operates with Cliff's son Erik at the helm. If you wanted a 6-pack boat the Argus and Soleman both work out of fisherman's wharf. If you choose one of these boats tell em Jim Cox sent you, and we will see if they remember me after 8 years!!