Wash Rock
37.47°N · 122.48°W
Wash Rock Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Chinook fishing at Wash Rock looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 11 AM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Wash Rock 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 Wash Rock
Wash Rock is an exposed sand flat off Half Moon Bay, California, running 10 to 30 feet deep across open, outer coastal water. The flat holds California Halibut through the warmer months, with a peak from April to August, alongside Lingcod that show strongest in February and March and again from August to October. Rockfish move over the area from May to September, Chinook Salmon run March through August, and Dungeness Crab fill in the colder stretch from October to January. Drift fishing with live anchovies, live smelt, or squid works the sand for halibut, while jigging metal jigs or leadhead jigs with swimbaits targets lingcod holding near bottom. For crab, pots baited with squid or fish carcasses sit well on this soft, level bottom, and trolling anchovies or spoons covers the water column for salmon.
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