Southeast Reef Hump
37.47°N · 122.48°W
Southeast Reef Hump Fishing Forecast
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Chinook fishing at Southeast Reef Hump looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 11 AM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Southeast Reef Hump 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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Species
Now 73 · 11 AM PDT
14-Day Forecast
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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 Southeast Reef Hump
Southeast Reef Hump is an outer-exposed rock pinnacle off Half Moon Bay, rising through water that runs 40 to 80 feet deep. The structure holds lingcod, which peak from February through March and again from August through October, alongside aggregate rockfish that peak May through September and cabezon peaking April through May and July through October. Chinook salmon move through from March into August, and California halibut peak from April through August over the surrounding bottom. Anglers work the rock with metal jigs, leadhead jigs with swimbaits, and shrimp flies for lingcod, while bait fishing with squid, anchovies, and sardines takes rockfish holding tight to the pinnacle. Salmon respond to trolling anchovies, spoons, flashers, and hoochies through the water column, and halibut come on drifted live anchovies, smelt, and squid worked across the deeper edges of the structure.
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