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Salt Point

38.57°N · 123.33°W

BoatGroundfish Management Area San FranciscoLingcod · Open

Salt Point Fishing Forecast

Updated today

Lingcod fishing at Salt Point looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Salt Point from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Lingcod. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.

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Every spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.

Species

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Best score for the day · 4 PM
87/100
GOOD

Now 86 · 11 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-7 PM
Tide ebbing
CDFW · Groundfish Management Area San Francisco · Lingcod openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 22"

14-Day Forecast

Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster
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Conditions
Time
11 AM
Now
Score
86
Good
Tide
3.4 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
4 kn
W · steady
Sea state
Easy
2.5 ft @ 12 s S
Air temp
59°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 11 AM. Score 86 Good. Tide 3.4ft Rising ▲. Current +0.6kn Flood. Wind 4kn W G6. Sea 2.5 ft @ 12 s S Easy. Air 58.6°.

Why this score

Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Lingcod
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
Minimum 22"
Annual quota
Not published
Other
§28.27. Open all depths Apr 1–Dec 31. 2 fish per person. Minimum size 22 inches total length (22 × 2.54 = 55.9 cm). Filleting aboard vessel: minimum 14 inches with entire skin attached. Shore-based anglers and divers exempt from season/depth restrictions. Cordell Bank: all groundfish fishing prohibited. Descending device required aboard vessel.
Season
Apr 1 to Dec 31
Other species here
Cabezon Retention openBlue Rockfish Retention openKelp Greenling Retention openCopper Rockfish Retention openBlack Rockfish Retention openChinook Salmon Closed
Always check with CDFW ↗

Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area San Francisco · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Lingcod is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Lingcod
~8 more weeks in shoulder
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SPOT PROFILE

DEPTH
261-658 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

About Salt Point

Salt Point is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Bodega Bay, California, where the bottom falls through 260 to 660 feet of water. The structure holds a mix of rockfish—blue, black, and copper—alongside cabezon, kelp greenling, and California sheephead, with lingcod peaking from July through February. Chinook salmon move through between April and August, while coho fishing runs from June into November. Anglers target lingcod over the rock with metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs, or work live rockfish and squid across the drop-off. For salmon, trolling anchovies, spoons, hoochies, and flashers covers the water column, and mooching anchovies or herring on banana weights works the same fish over this exposed structure.

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