Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta · Rio Vista
Real-time tide, flow, water temperature, wind and solunar data for the Rio Vista corridor — the same numbers serious Delta anglers check before launching.
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Top fishing windows ranked by tide turns, solunar majors/minors, low-light periods and forecast wind. Plan your launch around these.
Windows are guidelines. A solid plan, fresh bait and time on the water still beats any forecast.
Today, tomorrow and the day after — each day's top 2 bite windows so you can pick when to launch. Tide and solunar are rock-solid out 3 days; wind forecast confidence softens past 48 hours.
Quick log — takes 10 seconds. Helps tune the bite score over time. Saved on your phone.
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Score is a 0–100 guideline that combines water temperature, tide phase, wind, light and solunar timing. 65+ is worth a launch. Tap anywhere outside this card to close.
NOAA Station 9415102. Stripers move on tide swings. Best windows are the hour before and after each turn — especially when a major solunar overlaps.
USGS gauge 11455420. Rising stage and clearing flow after a push usually wakes up the bite. Watch for sudden temperature drops or muddy color from upstream rain.
Anything over a sustained 15 mph and the West Bank gets sloppy. Look for the first calm morning after a blow — bait stacks up and stripers feed hard.
What's actually being cleaned at the Vieira's Resort fish-cleaning station — the only same-day catch counts on this stretch of the Delta. Updated when there's something to report.
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Proven striper and salmon water within a short run of Vieira's Resort. Match the spot to today's tide and wind — it's noted on each card.
Classic kings-up-the-river trolling lane once the fish push past Rio Vista. Pull spinners or sardine-wrapped Kwikfish through 20–40 ft of water along the channel.
Best: outgoing tide, overcast or low light. Fall run picks up September through November.
Holding water for traveling kings before they push upriver. Anchor and back-bounce roe, or troll Flatfish in the deeper holes near the ship channel mouth.
Best: slack to early outgoing, peak run early October.
Classic trolling lane on the west side of the Sacramento running south of Rio Vista. Drag deep-diving plugs and big swimbaits along the ledge.
Best: outgoing tide, west wind under 12 mph.
First stop out of Vieira's. Work the rip lines with shallow-running swimbaits at first light or last light.
Best: last hour of incoming into the top of the tide.
Current breaks and rock walls hold fish on big tides. Troll the edges or pitch swimbaits to the rocks.
Best: strong outgoing, low light.
Long stretches of bank for plugging and trolling. Wind blown shorelines pile bait against the tules.
Best: incoming tide with a southwest wind.
Cuts between the Sacramento and San Joaquin. Strong current pulls bait through — fish the mouths on the turn.
Best: tide change, both directions.
Big-water stripers stage here on the spring run. Troll deep along the channel edges.
Best: outgoing into the bottom of the tide.
Tighter water, current seams along submerged wood and rip rap. Pitch swimbaits under the trees.
Best: outgoing tide, calm wind.
Up-river run when fish push through. Troll rebels and big plugs through the bends.
Best: rising water, post-rain push.
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