West Pescadero Point Hump
37.24°N · 122.43°W
Now 40 · 1 PM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- 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
Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area San Francisco · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Lingcod is best at this spot
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West Pescadero Point Hump is an outer-exposed rock pinnacle off Half Moon Bay, rising through water that runs 120 to 240 feet deep. The structure holds Chinook Salmon at their peak from March through August, alongside a strong rockfish mix that includes Bocaccio, Canary, Yellowtail, and Widow Rockfish. Lingcod work the pinnacle hard in February and March and again from August through October, while California Halibut move in from April through August. Anglers troll anchovies, spoons, flashers, and hoochies for Chinook or switch to mooching whole anchovies and sardines when the fish sit deeper. Lingcod respond to metal and leadhead jigs worked over the rock, and halibut come to drifted live anchovies, smelt, and squid along the pinnacle's edges.
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