PITTSBURG - Sturgeon fishing is beginning to perk up with anglers getting back on the water in Suisun Bay and Carquinez Strait with the arrival of an extended period of dry weather. On his first ...

On July 9, 1983, Joey Pallotta of Crockett, California caught the world record white sturgeon weighing 468 pounds while fishing from his boat in San Pablo Bay in Contra Costa County.

Spring sturgeon fishing has hit its prime on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay. The water is muddy, the color of chocolate milk, but the influx of water from the atmospheric rivers ...

For more information visit CDFW’s sturgeon page. Questions can be sent to [email protected]. This article originally appeared on Visalia Times-Delta: Giant white sturgeon caught in Suisun Bay ...

But he’s always fantasized about catching a record-sized fish like the 468-pounder that local fishing guide Joey Pallota caught in 1983. Pulled from the coast in Benicia, which lies near the mouth of ...

It was a rainy morning on March 29 when Capt. Zack Medinas met his party of three anglers for the day. The group decided they’d head out anyway to target white sturgeon in Suisun Bay, California ...

Recent results from white sturgeon monitoring surveys by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) suggest the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) population has continued to decline.

Less than a year ago, California had one of the most liberal regulations for white sturgeon—an anadromous fish that can grow to 20 feet long and over 1,000 pounds—in the country, allowing ...

California's Fish and Game Commission voted to consider listing white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, as a threatened species.

PITTSBURG - Sturgeon fishing is beginning to perk up with anglers getting back on the water in Suisun Bay and Carquinez Strait with the arrival of an extended period of dry weather. On his first ...