My understanding (I am no expert on stripers) is that in California, these stripers spend their summer in the Pacific Ocean and return to the delta to spawn in the winter. We also have landlocked stripers in some of the bigger lakes, but this fish was caught close to where the Sacramento River meets the San Joaquin River and flows into the San Francisco Bay. Took me about a good 20 mins. to real that fish in --it was a blast! The largest striper my friends and family caught is 22 lbs. That was a big fish.
