Point Stuart Hump
37.86°N · 122.45°W
Point Stuart Hump Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Chinook fishing at Point Stuart Hump looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 11 AM, with the tide ebbing.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Point Stuart 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 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 Point Stuart Hump
The Point Stuart Hump is a rocky pinnacle rising from the outer, exposed waters off San Francisco, with depths running 40 to 120 feet across broken structure. The rock holds aggregate rockfish and lingcod year-round, with lingcod peaking February through March, August through October, and again in December, while cabezon concentrate on the reef from April through June, in August and September, and again in late fall. California halibut move through from April to August and Chinook salmon run April to September in the surrounding water column. Lingcod respond to jigging with metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs worked over the pinnacle, while cabezon take squid, shrimp, cut bait, and live sanddabs fished on the bottom against the rock. Chinook are targeted by trolling whole anchovy, spoons, hoochies, and flashers, and halibut by drifting live anchovies, live shiner perch, or midshipman across the deeper edges of the structure.
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