BAY:  Weather conditions this week are light winds but cold and big swell building with rain by mid week.  Rockfish/lingcod bite remains steady locally and up the coast to Davenport and Año.  White seabass and few halibut are possible.  Dungeness crab season has been delayed due to excessive toxin levels found in the crab and may open within the next 30 days.  Shore based angling for rockfish, cabezon and lingcod remains open year around. This includes diving using a spear.

SURF:  The striper bite is still on but slower with scattered reports.  Best times are dawn and dusk or dark.  In coming tides are also best to fish but fish have been caught on low or out going tides. The best beaches continue to be Rio, Seascape, Manresa, Sunset. Pajaro to Moss Landing.  The top producing lures have been: Daiwa Salt Pro Minnow, Savage manic prey, Yozuri mag minnows, Rapala X12, X13 and X14 saltwater XRAPS.  Other good lures are bucktail kastmasters, pencil poppers, and bucktail jigs. The best baits for perch are  Berkley Gulp Sandworms,  Big Hammer or Kalin's grubs, prawn, blood and pile worms and grass or ghost shrimp and the all-time favorite soft shell sand crabs. Try to fish the latter half of the incoming tide and look for riptides and deeper troughs to set your baits. 

PIERS/ROCKS:   Off the rocks, cabezon, rockfish, lingcod and perch are available from the west side up the coast into San Mateo county and down past Big Sur.  Squid, shrimp and scented artificials have worked the best. Off the piers, some halibut and stripers, perch, mackerel and a variety of smaller fish remain available.

LAKES AND RESERVOIRS: Fall/Winter conditions prevail.  Presentations are jigs tipped with crawfish patterns, suspending crankbaits, swimbaits, chatterbaits and dropshotted plastics twitched slow.  The San Luis Reservoir and Forebay has sufficient water and has been fishing well  for stripers and largemouth.  The best baits have been live shiners, blood and pile worms, umbrella rigs, pearl flukes and Rapala ripbaits and jerkbaits.  Coyote, Anderson, Calero, Uvas and Los Baños Reservoirs are cold and slowing down.

RIVERS:  Central coast streams and rivers are closed for steelhead fishing until Dec. 1st.  Salmon and steelhead fishing in the American, Klamath, Trinity, Sacramento and Feather rivers is open and fish are being caught  Check the regulations.  Sierra trout season is coming to a close.  However, some rivers remain open year around.  Check regulations.