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SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY d ALAMEDA COUNTY a C Plateau Reservoir Del Valle 2 Point Pinole Pier – Richmond Regional Parklands Bay ree 5 Don Castro – Hayward k Trail Ardenwood FREMONT 3 Eckley Pier – Carquinez Straight, Parklands Under Development CoyoteS Historic Farm F This 25-acre lake offers fishing for rainbow trout, Lake B Ohlone Hills a y Elizabeth Antioch Tr B Other Open Space North ai a l Dumbarton Quarry y channel catfish, largemouth bass, black crappie, A re Campground On a R 4 Antioch/Oakley Pier – Antioch EBRPD Visitor Center i Sunol d l The Bay ge rai carp, and bluegill; lagoon swimming, and hiking. Mission T Wi ss T ra ne ld erne Peak il O hlo 5 BART Station and Track SF Bay National NEWARK Big Break Pier – Oakley 6 Jordan Pond – Garin Park, Hayward Wildlife Refuge Regional Trails Fremont Camp Ohlone Hills This 3.5-acre pond offers fishing for channel catfish, ALAMEDA COUNTY Additional Fishing – Fishing 0 10 Miles SANTA CLARA COUNTY Calaveras largemouth bass, bluegill, and sunfish; hiking and Reservoir is allowed at all East Bay Regional picnicking. (No District permit required.) Park District shoreline parks.

11 Fishes in the Regional Parks Channel Catfish 1 Identification: The head of this type of fish is flattened top to bottom. These fish have no scales. They use their whiskers as scent sensors

to locate their meals. They 2 have pointed, forked tails, spots Channel on their olive green-blue bodies, and black Catfish whiskers. Catfish can grow to 35-plus pounds. Where to fish: Catfish comb shallow shoreline areas near vegetation and

Rainbow Trout undercut banks. 3 Identification: Trout have a forked tail, two Rainbow Trout Carp How to fish: These fish eat almost anything. widely spaced dorsal fins, a fleshy adipose fin, Identification: Carp and their Some of the best baits are worms, chicken small scales, and teeth. They may have a pink relatives have heavy bodies with large liver, frozen anchovies, mackerel, clams, band on each side of their body, a silver back How to fish: Use night crawlers, red worms, salmon scales, downward facing mouths, and two or sardines, placed on a #2 hook with with black spots, and a silver belly. eggs, or power bait on a #8 hook about two feet off pairs of small barbels on the upper lip. Their a 1- to 6-ounce sinker. Where to fish: These colorful creatures thrive the bottom with a sliding sinker. Also, shiny lures dorsal and anal fins have large, serrated spines. 4 Limit: five per day. in cool, clear, oxygen-rich water. In winter, they less than one inch long may be cast or trolled. Where to Fish: Look for carp along shallow shorelines are usually found in the open-water areas of lakes Try wet or dry flies along lake shorelines. near vegetation. Look for them leaping during breeding near the surface, and in deeper, cooler water Limit: five per day. season (March-May). in the summer. How to fish: These fish will take

night crawlers, corn, power bait, 5 or dough bait. Limit: no limit. Largemouth Bass Identification: These Common fish have thick, elongated Carp 6 bodies with a black stripe along each side. Their jaw extends past the midpoint of their eyes. They can grow to 17 pounds or more. Where to fish: The best time to fish for bass Largemouth Bass Panfish 7 is during the spring. They prefer warm, shallow, shaded, weedy, or tree-covered areas. How to fish: Use natural bait (night crawlers Smallmouth Bass and crayfish) or black or purple plastic worms Identification: These fish have rigged with #1 weedless hooks and crank baits thick elongated bodies often with

or bass plugs. vertical barring along each side. 8 Their jaws do not extend past the Limit: 12 inch minimum length, five per day Bluegill in combination with smallmouth bass. center of their eyes. They may grow to five plus pounds. Where to fish: Smallmouth bass prefer cooler and deeper water than largemouth bass. They are more often found in moving 9 water near inlets and steep, rocky areas. How to fish: Smallmouth Bluegill, Sunfish bass prefer plastic lures, Identification: Typical panfish have especially those combined a forked tail and a fused, spiny-soft dorsal.

Green Sunfish 10 with a spinner. Night Their compressed, short bodies are designed crawlers are also good. for short bursts of speed in backwater areas. Limit: 12 inch minimum length, Where to fish: These fish prefer shallow, muddy Smallmouth Bass five per day in combination with shoreline areas where submerged trees and largemouth bass. weedbeds are found. Sunfish prefer deeper Black Crappie areas than bluegill. Identification: Black crappie have seven to eight dorsal spines with dark, random spots on 11 How to fish: Use a bobber to hold a #12 hook their bodies and fins. Pectoral fins are round. Striped Bass three to four feet off the bottom. Use red worms, Identification: These fish have thick, meal worms, or grasshoppers. Where to fish: Most of the year, crappie elongated bodies with black spend their time in close-knit schools in open Limit: 25 in combination with black crappie. lateral stripes. and deeper water than sunfish. During the

Where to fish: They patrol spring spawning season they feed along the 12 open water, 10-40 feet below surface on schooling minnows. After spawning the surface. They will move into they can be found around sunken brush piles. the shallows to feed on small fish. Crappie can grow to three-plus pounds. How to fish: Try streamer flies, jigs, Striped Bass How to fish: Use a strong rod and reel with at least 20 lb. test line. Use trolling lures resembling grasshoppers, or grubs pulled along the surface 13 small fish or bait with sardines or anchovies. or bobbed around brushy areas, or mid-water worm trolling. Limit: 18 inch minimum length, two per day. Black Crappie Limit: 25 in combination with bluegills and sunfish.

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