Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light
37.49°N · 122.49°W
Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light Fishing Forecast
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Chinook fishing at Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 11 AM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Chinook. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
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Now 73 · 11 AM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 2 per day
- Possession
- 4 in possession
- Size
- Minimum 20"
- Gear
- Angling only per CCR T-14 §1.05. No sinkers/weights >4 lbs. North of Point Conception: no more than two single-point, single-shank barbless hooks; one rod per angler. When fishing with bait by any means other than trolling: two single-point, single-shank barbless circle hooks required, hard-tied, max 5 inches apart (CCR T-14, §27.80(a)).
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Fall season. Open subarea: 38 02 N latitude south to Pigeon Point (37 11 N). Minimum size 20 inches (50.80 cm) total length. Fall harvest guideline: 20,000 Chinook (applicable across open areas). Possession limit: up to 2 daily bag limits on land; only 1 daily bag limit on a vessel (CCR T-14, §27.80(e)).
- Season
- Sep 1 to Oct 31
Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area San Francisco · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Chinook Salmon is best at this spot
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About Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light
Pillar Point Harbor Entrance Light marks an outer-exposed rock drop-off off Half Moon Bay, California, where the bottom falls through depths of roughly 260 to 660 feet. Chinook Salmon run here from March through August and take trolled anchovies, spoons, flashers, and hoochies, with mooching whole anchovies or sardines behind banana weights as an alternative over the same water. Rockfish hold on the rock structure with a peak from May through September and respond to bait fishing with squid, anchovies, and shrimp flies, while jigging metal jigs and leadhead jigs works the same ground. Lingcod stack up on the drop-off in February and March and again from August through October, taken on metal jigs and leadhead jigs with swimbaits or on live sanddabs and mackerel. Cabezon feed close to the rock from April into fall, where bottom fishing with squid, shrimp, and cut bait reaches them among the structure.
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