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 and Fort Bragg Tuna Fishing Report Week of 8-27-23
Wide open Albacore Bite out of Fort Bragg, Bluefin have arrived back to Bodega but remain hit or miss 8-20-23 With rumors of bluefin being back in town, and a boat full of SoCal commercial kite fisherman we decided to make the run south toward the islands to find bluefin. After some looking we sure found em. We spent all day kite fishing and marked a few solid schools. We did have one bite but the hook never set in its mouth good enough to stay on. I learned a whole lot from these guys on how to fly a…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 8-20-23
The endless wind has ended, the weather has been flat calm, lingcod bite has been the best I’ve ever seen in my life, and the albacore are back in town for the first time in a decade. Fishing season is back in full swing. Air temps have a balmy 60 to 70 degrees on the water, and water surface temps are in the low 60s, it finally feels like summer has finally arrived and It couldn’t be better. Wide open Lingcod Action. 8-09-23 We decided to do a bluefin scout trip. We trolled all the way to the half moon…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 8-5-23
Wind, wind and more wind seems to plagued our typically calm summer months. Our trips have been scattered and we haven’t had much to report so this covers the past 2 weeks of inshore rockfishing, when we can get out there the rockfish bite has been red hot. At least there’s finally there is an end to the non stop wind in the forecast. Wide open shallow rockfish bite out of Bodega Bay, lingcod bite has been decent. 7-19-23 We decided to run north today and fish real shallow on light tackle gear. Weather was pretty nice all day, and…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 7-16-23
Endless North wind continues to blow through and keep our trips limited. We made the most of what we could work with and still got a few Halibut and nearshore rockfish. Tomales Halibut Bite Improving and Nearshore Rockcod Opener. We had to deal with some pretty nasty weather this weekend but both the Sorta Salty and the Sea Queen managed to get some fish. On Saturday I took the Sorta Salty into Tomales bay in search for halibut with live jacksmelt we jigged up from the Dock in Bodega and pulled 6 halibut to 13lbs for 5 clients. After running…
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Norcal Bluefin Tuna Fishing 101: Getting The Bite
**Updated October 2023 with some new information since the fishing has changed a lot this fall and I’ve changed a few things with my fishing style. The fishing has been great and I’ve had some time to fine tune things, check the Fishing Reports Page for more info on what’s happening on the water. This Is part 1 of 2 of the NorCal Bluefin Tutorials. For Part 2, select Norcal Bluefin Tuna Fishing 102: From the Bite to the Bag With the Bluefin showing up again in big numbers for the 2nd year in a row in Norcal, there are…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 7-9-23
I did miss a report last week. But there was a Good excuse. The bluefin arrived about 2 months earlier than we expected in Bodega Bay, mixed with a busy 4th of July weekend and good weather around the holiday, it was a very hectic week for us. This fishing report will give a quick recap of the previous weekend and this weeks action. Heartbreak on the tuna front, steady Deepwater rockfish bite. Over the weekend (6/29-30) we ran some rockfish trips to shallower terrain and had a pretty typical bite. Quick limits of rockfish and a few lingcod in…
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.