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.
-
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 12-03-24
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 and life from the past few weeks of albacore action had scattered, we trolled further west for a few hours and out of the blue had 6 rods go off with several yellowtail leaping feet into the air on the hookup, we were all shocked since we were fishing in 58 degree water hundred of miles away from somewhere you…
-
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-17-24
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 days really applied to the rockfish today, and today wasn’t a good day. Most of the charter boats agreed it was the worst rockfish bite we’ve had in the past 10 years. Red tides, big swells over the past week, full moon and big tides all aligned to shut down the rockfish bite, half limits of rockfish were something to…
-
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 11-10-24
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 them were not too exciting, slower tuna fishing for Capt. Josh and Capt. Billy. Most days averaging a few albacore per day and a handful of big bluefin pulled hooks at the boat, which seems to be a common theme for many fisherman this year. Tough fishing but luckily it seems to be improving against all odds. Bodega Bay Albacore…
-
Bodega Bay Tuna Fishing Report Week of 10-13-24
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 much at all. Persistent north winds has plagued this tuna season, but we are staying optimistic that calm seas are going to happen and the fish will wait for us. Bodega Bay Albacore Tuna Report 10-13-24 We fished on Friday for bluefin behind the islands, in short 0 fish for 12 boats running out of bodega, lots of bait and…
-
Bodega Bay Tuna Fishing Report Week of 9-9-24
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 new 28′ parker the Bigeye. I wanted to take her out on a ride and spend a day fishing before I brought clients aboard. Josh took the Sorta Salty form bodega and I took the Bigeye from Tomales Bay and we headed southwest toward Cordell with high hopes and to search along with many buddy boats. I picked up a…
-
Fort Bragg Tuna Fishing Report Week of 9-2-24
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. At 9am I got a call from a buddy boat that the fish were biting north so we headed to 18 X 35 and started picking away at singles and doubles of good grade fish, we happened to hit a double on yellowtail and got one 8lber to the boat which was pretty exciting since I’ve never caught a yellowtail…
Past Fishing Report Archive
- April 2026 (3)
- 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.