Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Monday, October 12, 2009
As a Stockton native I always miss the hot summer days and warm evenings when the weather changes in October. I enjoy playing a late round of golf until 8 PM, mowing the lawn or other outside chores in the late evening hours of summer. It won’t be long before we have to turn the clocks back an hour to standard time. Gee…will I adjust?
Yes! With the cooler weather of autumn and the first winter storm of the season the San Joaquin River Delta comes alive for the fisherman. The fish start moving around and feeding to get ready for winter. The temperature of the water changes, the swimmers and water skiers are gone, the striped bass run is on. Let’s go fishing!
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is an example of an inverted river delta, one of only a few worldwide. The delta consists of myriad small natural and man-made channels (locally called sloughs), creating a system of isolated lowland islands and wetlands defined by dikes or levees. The total area is around 1,100 square miles, around 70 reclaimed islands and tracts, surrounded by 1,100 miles of levees surrounded by 700 miles of waterways. The delta was originally marshland; reclamation was made by the building of levees, by Chinese laborers in the 1850s. Read more…”Thousand Miles of Waterways”
Here is a link to one of my favorite websites! California Delta
