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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San Francisco Bay Halibut Fishing Report Week of 4-21-24
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 striper, among many undersize fish. Luckily the Clients enjoyed the day on the water with great weather. 4-20-24 With the not so great results from the previous day, Capt. Josh stayed a little closer to home in the North Bay and managed to find an absolutely wide open bite. They got their first bite before the rod hit the bottom…
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General Fishing Seasons Update 3/13/23
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 giving Capt. Josh a call. I’m going to set up Capt. Josh to post some weekly reports on here as he primary does the halibut thing. Late Spring/Summer Rockfish and Salmon We’ve been patiently waiting for 2 things that to be announced by the federally managed PFMC (Pacific Fishery Management Counsel). The First is rockfish, as last year was tough…
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Norcal Bluefin Tuna Fishing 102: From the Bite to the Bag
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 write up, Norcal Bluefin Tuna Fishing 101, I recommend you skim through that one first, as I go through how I set up my gear. This write up will cover what I’ve experienced is the best way to get a Northern California Bluefin Tuna and Bigeye Tuna into the boat once you gotten your bite. Once again there’s many ways…
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Bodega Bay Tuna Fishing Report Week of 10-31-23
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 it out and big tuna generally weight more than they look). Josh pulled the fish off a foamer ball and had him to the boat in about 25 minutes. That was the only bite for the day, but with bluefin that’s all you really need for a decent day. A lot of boats, but luckily mostly locals but it still…
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Bodega Bay Tuna Fishing Report Week of 10-22-23
Bluefin Bite Still Wide Open 10-21-23 Capt Josh ran the Sorta Salty Today. He had an open charter interested in rock cod so he ran to the shallow grounds and pulled limits of nice quality rockfish and a few lingcod. The rock cod bite has started to slow down in the deeper water and has tapered off from where it was a few months ago, typically we are shifting to shallow water but DFG has not allowed us to do so for this year, on the bright side we will likely be getting a good chunk of Cordell Banks to…
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Bodega Bay Tuna Fishing Report Week of 10-15-23
Wide Open Bluefin Tuna Fishing in Bodega Bay. 10-13-23 Today we charged out looking for albacore and ran into some solid bluefin foamers on the way out near an area we call the football west of fort ross. We trolled a few laps around them with the madmacs and continued to head west in search of albacore, we found the temp break and trolled for albacore and had a bite within 20 minutes and it unfortunately shook the hook, we kept trolling for a few more hours for nothing so we headed in for bluefin, we instantly ran into well…
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.