The season started slower for us in Bodega with a lot of weather and hit or miss fishing, but as of today we are on the 3rd day of constantly wide open action, with all you can get salmon fishing.…
Insane Halibut bite, Decent Rockfish and lingcod Action. Bodega Bay – 6/17/26 Capt Ryan- Bigeye Capt Billy- Sorta Salty Both Boats Ran north and found decent rockfish and lingcod action. Rockfish bit good in shallow, lingcod were slow, one the…
Lingcod bite remains solid, rockfish remains not as solid. Overall still some good fishing to be had. Bodega Bay – 4/17/26 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Capt Billy- Sorta Salty Today was the first day of 2026 running both boats and…
Salmon Season has officially been announced. We are looking at a pretty good season with just shy of 35k fish quota for SF zone. Plus some big things on the rockfish front happening. Salmon From the PFMC We won some…
We are back on for 2026, and the fishing has started out solid with a good rockfish and lingcod bite. With salmon season to be released in the next few days (finalized on April 12th), we are looking at a…
Lingcod and Crab are wide open. Weather was great, awesome week to finish out November. Bodega Bay Fish Report – 11/26/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye+Sorta Salty Both boats ran and had pretty awesome fishing. We limited on crab quickly with…
Crab combo trips are running full throttle. Crabbing is good, and decent weather has allowed us to finally get real numbers of trips in for the first time this year. We’ve run for the past 7 days straight, with both…
Finally a break in the weather has improved the fishing and the ability to go find the fish. The crabbing is wide open, the fishing is good, and the ocean couldn’t have been nicer. Tuna are still around, just a…
Crab season is finally here, The crabs are crawling but the ocean has been pretty angry. Fishing is decent, a little hit or miss. But double digit swell heights can have that effect. Bodega Bay Fish Report – 11/1/25 Capt…
Well its been a long while since I posted a report. I went out of state elk hunting in New Mexico, then back here for a few days to drive straight up to Oregon for a few weeks to wrap…
Wide open albacore continues, Lots of Bluefin to the south still biting. Fort Bragg Tuna- 8/18/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Another day of wide open albacore with 50 good quality tuna by 1pm. We started off the morning with the…
Tuna are in and biting! We made the move to Ft Bragg and had 3 good days in a row on albacore. Bluefin action still remains solid to the south as well and we expect to see them in Bodega…
Lingcod staying on the bite, halibut starting to join them. The bite is as steady as it gets in a good way. Albacore water to the north is looking really good and some good weather in the forecast to chase…
Tuna are reappearing, with good bottom fishing still happening. Large Bluefin tuna are arriving from the south, and the lingcod bite is excellent when the wind is calm. Albacore have yet to appear, but they are expected to arrive in…
Bodega Bay- 7/6/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye We headed north into a sloppy ocean with dense fog. Knowing the weather would improve, we made the long ride north and found some clear and very cold 47-degree water further north than…
Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Bodega Bay- 6/30/25 After Josh’s pretty good weekend, I had high hopes of limits of lingcod and rockfish by lunchtime. We headed north with decent weather and instantly found a pretty good rockfish bite, but ended…
BODEGA BAY: F/V BIGEYE Today we pointed north into a pretty lumpy ocean and made the slow pound north into the steep swells. The fog was thick but I had high hopes the ocean would lay down, and luckily it…
The weather gods somehow gave us 4 days of calm weather for salmon between 2 months of wind. We made the most of it, Salmon was a bust out of Bodega close to port, those who made the long run…
Well the wind is back, and here to stay for another week or two. We haven’t been posting much since we haven’t been fishing much due to wind. The halibut bite in the bay remains ok, about a fish per…
The offshore lingcod bite was wide open. Inshore halibut not so much. Summer feels like its knocking on our door as Deepwater rockfish season ends in a epic fashion. San Francisco Bay Fishing Report 4-23-25 From Capt Josh. We grabbed…
The Albacore Tuna Albacore Tuna fishing is one of the most thrilling fisheries along the west coast and my personal favorite fish to catch. Although they are much smaller in size compared to many of their tuna cousins, they still…
Fishing this week was decent with good rockfish coming in but a slower bite on the lings. Lots of wind keeping trips limited as normal for april with only 2 trips last week. As I type this Capt. Josh is…
First Report of the season with some good offshore lingcod action and striper action in the bay. Bodega Bay Offshore Rockfish 4-5-25 On Saturday we headed offshore into a slight wind chop and quickly caught about 60 sand dabs and…
As fishing season approaches with an April 1st start date for us, we are very busy getting both boats ready to start fishing out of SF bay and Bodega Bay. There are a few big and small changes to the…
Insane offshore Yellowtail bite, with some hit or miss albacore in the mix. Wide open inshore bite. Decent but steady crabbing. The fishing can’t get more epic. Bodega Bay Tuna Report 11-26-24 We headed west and found that the bait…
