Bluff Point
37.88°N · 122.44°W
Bluff Point Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Chinook fishing at Bluff Point looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 11 AM, with the tide ebbing.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Bluff Point 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 71 · 11 AM PDT
14-Day Forecast
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Why this score
Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 2 per day
- Possession
- 4 in possession
- Size
- Minimum 20"
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Fall season. Subarea: 38 02 N latitude to Pigeon Point. Minimum size 20 inches (50.8 cm) total length. Fall harvest guideline (applicable across open areas): 20,000 Chinook. Daily bag limit 2 salmon (CCR T-14, §27.80); possession limit 2 daily bag limits on land, 1 daily bag limit on vessel in ocean waters (CCR T-14, §27.80(e)). Gear: angling only per CCR T-14, §1.05; north of Point Conception: max 2 single-point, single-shank barbless hooks, 1 rod per angler (CCR T-14, §27.80(a)). In-season action may be taken to close open days when total harvest approaches the fall harvest guideline.
- Season
- Sep 1 to Oct 31
Source: CDFW · Groundfish Management Area SF Bay · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Chinook Salmon is best at this spot
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About Bluff Point
Bluff Point is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off San Francisco, where the bottom falls through 80 to 200 feet of water. Chinook Salmon run the strongest here from April through September, with trolling whole anchovy, spoons, hoochies, and flashers working the upper column, while mooching anchovy or sardine on banana weights covers the same fish. The rock structure holds Lingcod, which peak February through March, August through October, and again in December, and they respond to jigging metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs, or live sanddabs fished tight to the bottom. Blue and Black Rockfish stack over the same terrain from spring into late summer, taking shrimp fly rigs and metal jigs on the drop-off's ledges. California Halibut move through from April to August and come to drift-fished live anchovies and shiner perch worked across the base of the structure.
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