Spring Stripers and Halibut Bite Hard in San Francisco Bay Today

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It's Thursday, April 10, 2026, 8.35 a.m. Pacific, and we're looking at a classic San Francisco Bay setup.

Cool, breezy, with that fog hanging low over the Golden Gate.

Sunrise hit at 6.42 a.m., sunset 7.42 p.m., giving us a solid 13 hours of light.

Weather's mostly cloudy, highs around 62 degrees Fahrenheit, lows 52 degrees Fahrenheit, with northwest winds 10 to 15 knots picking up by afternoon,

Noah's calling for choppy bays and 4 to 6 feet swells outside.

Tides today, low at 7.20 a.m., 0.2 feet, high at 1.45 p.m., 5.8 feet, then low again at 8.30 p.m.,

0.1 feet. Fish the incoming tide hard, especially 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., when current rips through the channels.

Fish activities picking up with spring warb. Striped bass are pushing in from the ocean,

schooling on anchovies and shad in 43 degrees Fahrenheit water, near the beaches and bays.

Recent reports from fishing the North Coast say rockfish and ling cod limits are coming easy off Cape Mendocino,

just north of us, with halibut showing too.

Locally, pears and surf saw strippers, leopard sharks and halibut last week.

Anglers pulling 10 to 20 lbs. strippers, limits of 2 to 5 lbs. rockfish, and some 20-inch halibut.

That rays and that fish mixing in near the bottom.

Best baits?

Live anchovies or sardines on a Carolina rig for strippers in halibut drift them in the tide,

sand fleas or fish bites for surf perch.

Top lures, 6-inch swim baits like diowa SP minnow in bunker or anchovy patterns on light spinning gear.

Jic heads with minnow imitations in shad colors for rockfish work the 40 to 60 feet depths.

Hot spots right now, pears 7 under the day bridge for strippers on incoming,

and the north side of angel island for halibut drifts.

If you're both bound, hit the slot near alcatraz, structures holding fish.

Stay safe out there, check regs and wear your PFD.

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