Sorry, no pics, forgot the camera.
Went out looking for some CA sunshine yesterday (didn't find any), swung by Clifton Court forebay to see what the water temp was (64f), and drown some night crawlers. The only thing having luck were a pair of sea lions. I watched them for half an hour, catching/shredding/eating a dozen or so -large- catfish and carp. Sea lions are pretty common throughout the delta these days, and are often seen far up the deepwater channel, 50+ miles from the SF bay.

On the way home, I stopped at the intake channel for the Delta Mendota canal, about a quarter mile downstream from the "fish barrier". There is an access point where it flows under the road, and the intake channel is rip/rap lined. There was a pretty good patch of anacharis along the bank, so I took a few swipes through it with the dip net.
Result:
5 yoyo tule perch about 1.5" long. 3 unbarred, 1 fully barred morph, one partially barred morph.
1 riffle sculpin, about 2" long.
1 pikeminnow or hardhead fry, about 1.5" long.
10,000 scuds.

Rick

Rickwrench,

That sounds great. Were you still in the delta at this point? It's been a long time since I've been out that way I can't remember the last time I drug a dip net out there. Would like to do it again. Let me know the next time you head out maybe we can meet up. Lets here it for 10,000 scuds.

James

Technically, I was still in the delta. The Clifton Court forebay is a large settling lake built to keep the CA aquaduct from silting up.
The Delta Mendota intake channel was -very- turbid in comparison to the forebay. It's situated next to the south end of the forebay, but draws directly from the river and channels system.

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Funny, and I didn't realize it until just now, but all the species I netted were CA natives, no invasive/introduced species. Well, except for the anacharis (Egeria densa).

Rick