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📍 Planning a trip to San Francisco / Bay Area? Start with our complete San Francisco / Bay Area fishing guide — seasons, species, hot spots, and tactics. The weekly reports below cover what is happening right now.
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of October 15, 2026: target striped bass at the bridges and shorelines, halibut on the flats and deep-hole sturgeon.
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of October 8, 2026: target striped bass on moving tides, halibut on the flats and fall Chinook in the Delta.
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of October 1, 2026: fish stripers on the rock piles, halibut on the flats and fall salmon in the Delta.
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of September 24, 2026: target stripers under birds on anchovies, halibut on the flats and rockfish on the reefs.
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of September 17, 2026: drift live bait for halibut on the bay flats, chase fall stripers and work the last salmon…
San Francisco Bay Area fishing report for the week of September 10, 2026: target halibut on the flats and channel edges, Delta stripers and salmon offshore.
San Francisco / Bay Area fishing report for the week of September 3, 2026: target halibut on the bay flats, stripers on the anchovies and coastal rockfish and lingcod.
San Francisco Bay fishing report for the week of August 27, 2026: drift live bait for halibut on the sand flats and work Bay structure for stripers on moving tides.