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. We try 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 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…
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Fort Bragg Tuna Fishing Report Week of 8-13-25
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 soon! Bodega Bay to Fort Bragg- 8/9/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Got the gear prepped and heading north in the boat solo tword fort bragg, couldnt help myself to not hit the ledge and troll up. Put in lines at the football where there is currently many thousands of birds over several miles sitting on miles and miles of anchovy…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 7-27-25
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 them. I expect within two weeks to have a report with some longfins involved. No ones been out the past week to look for bluefin to the south due to wind but I imagine they are still there, if not a little closer to us. Bodega Bay- 7/25/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Same deal as its been. Headed north, wide…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 7-20-25
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 the next few weeks as the water temps improve. Bodega Bay- 7/11/25 Capt Ryan- F/V Bigeye Again We headed north into a sloppy ocean with dense fog. We quickly made work on limits of rockfish and then quick limits of lingcod. Done before noon again, Pretty much a repeat scenario of the previous week of near wide open lingcod fishing…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report 7-6-25
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 we had been fishing. We searched around in shallow water near some big wash rocks and eventually found a school of hungry blues. It took some searching, but once we found the school, it was game on, and we made quick work of some mid-size to jumbo blues. After that, we made our way deeper and looked for lings; we…
Past Fishing Report Archive
- April 2026 (2)
- 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.