Bay Area Fishing Report: Perfect Conditions, Bounty of Crab, Stripers, and More

Hey folks, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to guy for all things angling in the Bay Area. It's Friday morning in San Francisco Bay, skies partly cloudy with temps in the low 50s, light winds from the northwest—perfect for a day on the water. Sunrise hit at 7:20 AM, sunset around 4:54 PM, so get out early.

Tides today per Tides4Fishing and Tide-Forecast: high at midnight 4.6 ft, low 4:12 AM 3.5 ft, high 10:06 AM 6.1 ft, low 5:15 PM -0.6 ft. Average solunar activity means solid feeding windows around 10 AM-noon and evening. Fish the moving water—currents will stir 'em up.

Action's heating up! NorCalFishReports has Berkeley boats like California Dawn slamming 170-220 Dungeness crab and rockfish per trip yesterday—limits easy. Dragon Sport Fishing nabbed monster stripers recently. Lingcod and rockfish hot out of Shelter Cove too, per Fishing the North Coast. Salmon making waves: CDFW spotted juvenile coho in Russian River upper basin for first time in decades, and Chinook pushing into Alameda Creek near the Bay. Sturgeon and halibut lurking in the channels.

For lures, go Kastmaster spoons or swimbaits in chartreuse for stripers and halibut—mimic baitfish in the murk. Rockfish love iron jigs like UFOs or scotsman in pink/white. Live bait? Mud shrimp or ghost shrimp for sturgeon, pile worms for perch and rockfish. Anchovies on a sliding sinker for stripers.

Hot spots: Hit the Berkeley Flats at outgoing tide for halibut, or Oyster Point/Pier 7 for stripers and perch from shore. Boat guys, try the Slot off Alcatraz.

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