Due to the lack of rainfall the water clarity is improving on the San Joaquin River which has prompted a better striped bass bite for live bait drifters and bait dunkers at anchor. Some of the better locations have been San Andreas Shoals, Old River Flats and the Old Sounding Board off Venice island. Frozen thread fin shad and cut sardines and anchovies doing the trick for stripers averaging 19 inches to 5 pounds with several two-fish limits reported.