Rockin' Reefs, Tasty Crabs, and Hungry Stripers: Your SF Bay Fishing Report

Artificial Lure here with your Tuesday, November 11, 2025, fishing report for San Francisco Bay and the surrounding area. Sunrise hit at 6:46 am and you can expect sunset right around 5:01 pm, giving us good daylight for most of your target windows. Early fog burned off quickly, and by mid-morning, we’re looking at **partly cloudy skies, light northwest wind at 5–10 knots, and temps starting in the low 50s, climbing to mid-60s by the afternoon**. The barometer’s steady and the current marine layer is thin, making for comfortable conditions out on the water.

Today’s **tide cycle is textbook fall transition**: we started with a high at 5:25 am of 4.95 feet, dropped to a 3.16-foot low at 10:16 am, then bounced back up for a 5.29-foot high at 3:44 pm. The late-evening outgoing tide bottoms out at -0.1 feet just before 11 pm. Expect moderate current and decent water movement during the afternoon high, which should get the fish moving and feeding.

**Fishing action has been fired up the past 24 hours.** Out of Berkeley and Emeryville, the party boats are raking up limits of jumbo **Dungeness crab**—virtually every angler walked off with their max. On the rockfish front, catches have been “wide open”: yesterday saw boats like the Happy Hooker and New Huck Finn stacking hundreds of **rockfish and double-digit lingcod**, with several lingcod topping 20 pounds. That means today’s odds are strong for bottom action—especially during the incoming and outgoing tide swings.

San Francisco Bay and the inshore Delta are also producing good numbers of **striped bass**. Schools are holding around flats and rocky points near the Benicia/Martinez Bridge, but more are beginning to migrate east as water temps drop. Drifting live mudsuckers and minnows is bagging the bigger stripers right now. No word on monster catches, but anglers have reported solid fish into the teens and some quick limits.

**Halibut remain in the mix,** though action is tapering as the water cools. If you’re targeting halibut, best bet is to troll or drift live anchovies or herring on tide changes near Oyster Point and the Berkeley Flats. A handful of flatties were confirmed yesterday on slow-moving tides.

**Best lures and baits right now:**
- For rockfish and lingcod: heavy-duty jig heads loaded with chartreuse or rootbeer swimbaits, plus big diamond jigs and squid strips.
- For stripers: drifting live bait (mudsucker, anchovy) is tops, with soft-plastic flukes and chatterbaits also getting bites off points and rocky structure.
- For crab: run chicken backs or salmon frames in your pots with weights on deeper drops, especially on the big swings.
- For halibut: troll live bait or try large frozen herring—white and glow bucktail jigs on slow tides work in a pinch.

**Hot spots to hit today:**
- The main Rockwall off Berkeley for wide-open rockfish and lingcod.
- The flats and channel edges around Treasure Island for stripers and an outside shot at late-season halibut.
- Crabbing is as good as it gets, especially between Alcatraz and Angel Island on the outgoing tide.

A heads-up for the week: if the weather holds, expect continued strong bottom fishing and steady striper action, especially right after the afternoon tide switch. Tournament bass weights around the north Delta are decent but take work; plastics and jerkbaits near structure are your best bet if you’re heading inland.

That’s all for today’s San Francisco Bay report. Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe—your best bite is just one cast away. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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