The Fog Bowl of 2025

by Jack Naves

This past December, we experienced an odd weather pattern the likes of which most of us have never seen. For more than three weeks, an inversion layer trapped a blanket of fog over the Central Valley in a weather capsule straight out of science fiction.

The good news was that the menacing Delta winds were at a standstill. On the other hand, the total lack of direct sunlight slowly turned down the dial on water temperatures in a torturous-like manner. I was lucky enough to spend four straight weekends on the California Delta chasing striped bass during the weather event. Not surprisingly, the action ramped down in direct correlation with the plummetin...