Bodega Bay Fishing Report
Northern California Weekly Fishing Report – Bodega Bay, San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay & Fort Bragg
Click any tile below for this week’s Bodega Bay fishing report. Additionally, you can find real-time updates from San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay, and Fort Bragg. We post a fresh report every week we can get on the water—weather permitting—so you always know what’s biting, where, and why. Furthermore, our charter skippers deliver completely honest fishing reports. This includes big-number days, slow grinds, and everything in between. All helping you set realistic expectations before you book a trip.
If you want a quick snapshot of peak seasons for salmon, rockfish, lingcod, halibut, tuna, and crab, then jump over to our What We Catch page for month-by-month highlights.
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-30-25
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 some absolute giant crabs for the morning combo and afternoon crab-only trips. The average was well over 9 keepers per hoop, and a high of 17 keepers per hoop (one shy of my all-time record of 18 keepers). We are still fishing a little deeper, over 120 feet of water, and it seems to be paying off. And we had…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-25-25
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 boats running 1 or 2 trips per day. I’m just going to put yesterday’s trip since it’s pretty much been the same all week, with lingcod being the only variable. It’s been consistently good, steady action on the rockfish north of Ft Ross, and really good crabbing the deeper you get. Bodega Bay Fish Report – 11/24/25 Capt Ryan- F/V…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-12-25
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 little further to the north than we’d like out of Bodega. Bodega Bay Fish Report – 11/7/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye + Sorta Salty Both boats headed out first thing in the morning. We set gear below the river in 100 FOW. The crabbing was good, not amazing but 4 to 6 on average, which is a lot better than…
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Bodega Bay Crab Report Week of 11-3-25
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 Ryan- F/V Bigeye+ Sorta Salty Both boats headed out first thing in the morning on a lumpy ocean. We set gear off the river in 90 FOW. Crabbing was decent but not great, maybe 4 keeper average with some good hoops with 7 to 10, The morning hoops pulled a lot better, Cpt Billy said closer to that 7 average.…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report October
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 up the archery season. I did get a few trips offshore in-between the hunts after processing my bull from New Mexico, but I had to spend some late nights driving around to make it all fit so I never got to type up a report. All of this extra wind gave me a little more freedom than I normally have…
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Fort Bragg Tuna Fishing Report Week of 8-18-25
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 first line in the water getting hit and continued to put 20 mid grade albacore in the boat in the first hour and a half of fishing. We had several quads hookups and a 5 way in the mix with several fish coming in on the Farallon outfitter tungsten Jigs. The bite slowed for a couple hours then we found…
Past Fishing Report Archive
- December 2025 (1)
- November 2025 (3)
- October 2025 (1)
- August 2025 (2)
- July 2025 (5)
- June 2025 (3)
- May 2025 (1)
- April 2025 (4)
- March 2025 (1)
- December 2024 (1)
- November 2024 (2)
- October 2024 (1)
- September 2024 (2)
- August 2024 (3)
- July 2024 (4)
- June 2024 (4)
- May 2024 (2)
- April 2024 (1)
- March 2024 (1)
- February 2024 (1)
- November 2023 (1)
- October 2023 (3)
- September 2023 (1)
- August 2023 (3)
- July 2023 (3)
- June 2023 (4)
- May 2023 (1)
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Information:
Captain Ryan primarily writes these fishing reports when he gets a chance on Sunday or Monday evenings. Sometimes life gets in the way and it gets delayed. But if we leave the dock, whether the fishing’s good or bad, it will end up on this report eventually. Our Fishing reports will include Tomales Bay, Bodega Bay, Fort Bragg, San Francisco Bay and anywhere else we fish. You can expect fishing reports from Bodega Bay and Tomales Bay regularly. These reports are available for most of the summer, fall, and early winter. We continue until we dry dock the boat around Christmas. Currently the only other honest and first hand experience fishing report is from Willy with the Lawsons Landing Report down at Dillion’s Beach. We will also include fishing reports for our personal trips (when we are lucky enough to get them in) and tips and info from friends or other boats when we can get them. We are working on expanding this section of the website and archiving fishing reports out of Bodega Bay for years to come, for clients to get a better understanding of what seasons are best for what species. Overall this report is labeled as the Bodega Bay Fishing Report, but covers a wide variety of reports and information.