What happened to the stripers?
 

Back in the 60's when I used to fish off piers F&G planted a bunch of baby stripers along the coast with the idea that they would spawn during years of heavy rain run-off. We caught a lot of juveniles off the piers in those days. I quit fishing piers in the mid 70's so I don't know when they disappeared but I don't hear about anybody catching stripers along the coast now. Are they still out there or was the plan a bust?

I'll hear about the occasional one being caught up and down the coast every few years, but nothing more than a handful in the past 5 years.

I got one in the surf last weekend, but that was all the way up in Monterey.

Andy

Seems like a bunch were caught this past year in the surf. More than other years or just more reported?

Divers shoot them occasionally north of santa barbara

so are those stripers down from the delta or are there still ocean going stripers in SoCal?