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…
Offshore tuna bite remains wide open and the inshore rockfish bite was the exact opposite. Crab are still a bit hit or miss. Bodega Bay Crab and Rock Cod Report 11-16-24 The saying you cant have good days without bad…
Lots of hot albacore action continues into mid November and the crabbing remains a bit hit or miss. I was out of town for the past few weeks elk hunting so I missed a lot of reports, but most of…
With one of the windiest falls in recorded history hopefully behind us, a whopping 2 days of nice weather allowed us to get back on the tuna. I haven’t been posting much because we haven’t been able to fish very…
Bodega Bay Albacore Tuna Report 9-8-24 After hearing some very good reports from the previous days out of Bodega, we decided to tow the Sorta Salty back down and fish Bodega Bay for the weekend. I just finished prepping our…
Fort Bragg Albacore Tuna Report 8-30-24 We headed southwest toward arena canyon in the morning and found the break at about 40 miles away from the harbor. We searched all around and started hitting singles on smaller fish by 7:30am.…
Fort Bragg Albacore Tuna Report 8-23-24 We headed southwest into a flat calm ocean and found the temp break approximately 12 miles offshore and kept running a few miles to look for cleaner water. We put in and hit a…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 8-17-24 From Capt Josh. SATURDAY: Ran north with a group off 5. Flat ocean, but socked in hard. At one point it felt like it rained for a couple hours. Fishing was incredibly slow, due to…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 8-2-24 From Capt Josh. Headed north on a flat calm ocean… ended with 40+ Rockies, 9 lingcod and 3 cabezon! Fish came in 60 to 80 feet of water south of the pole. ~CPT. Josh Bodega…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 7-18-24 From Capt Josh. Had a last minute cancellation, but ran out trip anyways. We managed limits of lingcod for 3 clients up to 29lbs on the scale. Gregg Williams got his first lingcod ever, and…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 7-10-24 From Capt Josh. Fished as far north as timber cove and worked my way south Most fish came from 60 to 80 feet of water. They bit great on the smaller madame lures and shrimp…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 7-3-24 On Wednesday we had sunny skies with balmy air temps in the upper 60s to low 70s and somewhat calm seas out of Bodega Bay. Most of us got to comfortably wear shorts and T…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 6-28-24 Winds remained strong right offshore all week, but we managed to get out there on Friday and look for some rockfish and lingcod. Swell was a bit lumpy, but the wind remained calm and the…
Bodega Bay Fishing Report 6-20-24 Strong north winds all week cooled down onshore water temps down to the mid 40s which made fishing a little slower today. In the morning we found a very slow rockfish bite. After checking many…
Tomales Bay Fishing Report 6-11-24 From Capt. Josh. We had great weather on Tuesday for our halibut trip. We had Anthony and his 2 sons out and ended up with 3 nice halibut. All fish came on trolled herring. Plenty…
Wind and more wind. Bodega Bay Fishing Report 6-8-24 With some not so great weather forecasted and a private charter who wanted a few fish for dinner we made our way north against the swell. I found green water in…
Wind continues to blow, but the lingcod bite has started to improve. 5-26-24 Capt. Josh sent me the following report. Sunday May 26th we took the Taylor family north for some rockfishing. we started at sunken reef and worked our…
We are Finally back to Bodega Bay, rockfish are biting good and the Lingcod are a bit hit or miss. 5-16-24 Capt. Josh ran a personal trip and found a quick limit of lings on a flat ocean. Great way…
SF Halibut Bite Remains Steady 5-3-24 Capt. Josh ran north to China Camp and reported a very good bite all day trolling small dodgers with anchovies. They quickly gathered up limits of good quality halibut for the private charter of…
After a Slow Start, Halibut Bite Goes Wide open 4-19-24 Capt. Josh ran north of the Oakland Airport and reported slower fishing with lots of boats mainly doing the same thing. They managed to scrape up 3 halibut and 1…
Spring Halibut Fishing in SF Bay ( Now until May 5th) Starting this weekend Capt. Josh will be headed down to SF bay to run Halibut/striper trips out of Point Richmond. Those trips are available for booking online or by…
Since my last write up drew a pretty good amount of interest, I’ve decided to do a few more tutorials and will have them completed hopefully by the time the tuna show back up. If you haven’t read my first…
Bluefin still hanging around, Bite remains Hit or Miss 10-29-23 Capt Josh ran the Sorta Salty Today on his first bluefin tuna trip. He pulled up a nice 100lber (photos look more like 120lbs to me but he never taped…
